Harry's ability to cast the AK

[maribelnm63]

No: HPFGUIDX 148525

Johnbowman19 wrote:
>
> > Also I think Dumbledore misinterpreted the prophecy as a red 
> herring. "Neither can live while the other survives" doesn't not 
> mean that the person to kill Voldemort must be Harry or the person 
> to kill Harry must be Voldemort. The prophecy does not ascribe the 
> death of either individual to the other individual. Instead it says 
> that neither can live while the other lives...
> ...The prophecy does not 
> specifically state either has to, or can kill the other.  
>  

Hello:
I am just writting by heart so I may have missed something, but I can 
only remember Harry using the "cruciatus" curse against Bellatrix 
after she had killed Sirius and tried to use it against Snape after 
he has killed Dumbledore. In both cases Harry was extremely shocked 
by the death of someone he loved. It seems that Harry is only able to
cast an unforgivable curse when something horrible happens to others 
he cares about and it never was the AK.

He did not think about using AK at the graveyard even though he was 
sure that he was about to die, he merely casted "Expelliarmus". At 
the MoM: "Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist; his mind was 
blank, his wand pointing uselessly at the floor." This makes me think 
that Harry will not kill to defend his own life.

John, I agree with you that "Neither can live while the other 
survives" doesn't mean that Harry will have to kill Voldemort or 
viceversa but there is another phrase that is much more precise:
"and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live 
while the other survives"...This is terrifying at least if I think 
about it in my own languaje (spanish). It really means that one will
kill the other. As far as I remember in the spanish version it is 
crystal clear that they will fight to death.

When Dumbledore is explaining to Harry the meaning of the prophecy we 
read:

"...He did not know that you would have power the Dark Lord knows not.
`But I don't!' said Harry, in a strangled voice. `I haven't any 
powers he hasn't got, I couldn't fight the way he did tonight, I 
can't possess people or - or kill them -'"

I think that Harry recognizes his unability to kill...I think that 
the only chance he has to survive is to get someone else doing it for
him or maybe he will do it to save someone  else life and the 
prophecy was not that exact in the end. I desperately hope that it 
will be one of these options, I am not prepared to even think about a 
third one...

Maribel