DDM!Snape & the UV.

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 150039

Alcuin:

> Hi everyone,
> This is my first post ... in regard to the above exchange, I'm not 
> sure that hatred is the key factor in the Avada Kedavra curse.
> 

Sandy:

I agree with this and use as an example Peter performing the AK on Cedric. 
There was no reason for Peter to have any feelings at all for Cedric, much less 
hate.

  
   Alciun:

> ... Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy? ... You 
> need to _mean_ them, Potter!  You need to really want to cause pain - 
> to enjoy it ...
> 
> So it seems that the two factors necessary for an Unforgivable Curse 
> to be successful are (1) to _really_ intend that the curse have its 
> effect and (2) to take some kind of pleasure in its having that 
> effect.  So for Avada Kedavra to work, the caster must really want to 
> kill the intended victim and take pleasure in the victim's death.  If 
> this is correct, then hatred or no hatred, Snape comes off looking 
> badly here.  He would somehow have had to enjoy or take pleasure in 
> Dumbledore's death.
> 

Sandy:

While I would agree with number 1 I can't agree at all with number 2. I again 
use Peter and Cedric to make the point. He   (Peter) most surely intended 
that the curse should work because he was ordered to use it by V, and if it 
didn't he was going to be in deep shit, but I don't hold to the idea that he took 
pleasure in Cedric's death simply because there was no reason for him to want 
Cedric dead personally. Therefore, the same can hold true for Snape. Yes, he 
had to intend for the curse to work, but that does not mean that he enjoyed or 
took pleasure in administering the curse.

Sandy