Ways to Kill in HP (was Re: too many topics)

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No: HPFGUIDX 148903

angie gelite67 wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148497 :
<< he also desired to kill Sirius in POA and couldn't do it (never understood how he would have at that point anyway, b/c he didn't know about any killing curses then). >>

Catlday wrote:
<<There are ways to kill other than AK. Harry killed the basilisk in CoS by sticking a sword through its soft palate into its brain and Harry in HBP almost killed Draco with Sectumsempra. Harry in PoA didn't know Sectumsempra yet, but I think he'd learned spells to start fires so that he could have set Sirius's clothes on fire. 

In PS/SS, Wingardium Leviosa on the troll's club caused it to fly up
and bash the troll's head, which merely knocked out the troll, but
would have killed a human. If Ron hadn't been in the four-poster bed,
the bed would probably have been massive enough that bashing Sirius
with it would have killed him. Or how about levitating Sirius to a
great height and dropping him? 

When I suggested Transfiguring part of his aorta to tissue paper
(which would promptly dampen and burst, causing MASSIVE internal
hemorrhage and death), another listie said 'Accio Heart!' would be 
easier.>>


Maybe this is a bit of a morbid topic, but I found this 
interesting. Avada Kavada kills, but so do many other 
spells. Accio Heart would probrably work. So would Sectusampra. 
But the reason Avada Kavada, Crucio and Imperius are unforgivable
curses are that the are all seem to be Unblockable. 

You can break Imperious and Crucio but only after the 
initial effect has taken hold. This is why they are
unforgrivable. 

In order of the Phoenix Bellatrix tells Harry that he can't 
effectively cast Crucio, because he doesn't hate enough!
 All three of these curses are driven by the need for
absolute hatred (which means Dumbledore can be dead only if Snape absolutely hated him!)

You can kill by other spells and even physical means a Wizard or witch, however in all other cases he
or she has a chance to avoid it, or even caste a shield or counter curse. The three unforgivrable can
only be blocked by physical objects in their path or perhaps by something else called love. 

I'm going on the limb here and speculating, about what will 
be revealed in the last book, but I think that they can only
be blocked by a shield charm fueled by Absolute Love. 

Voldermort will probrably try to kill Harrys's friends or
Harry and either he or his friends will block Avada Kavada
and it will bounce back to Voldy like Lily's did.

I'm even willing to bet they will even find this curse in 
the potions book. Hermoine saw a womens handwritting in the book. Has Lily written in the book too
but somehow Harry overlooked his mother's handwritting? 
Thats my two Galleons!

D.A. Jones