DDM!Snape & the UV.

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 150083

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> "merrillsyndrome" <merrillsyndrome@> wrote:
> 
> > It is true that to perform an AK you have 
> > to feel hatred but where does it say that
> > you have to feel hatred toward the person
> > that the curse is directed at? 
> 
Eggplant wrote:
> To answer your question, it says so on page 810 Order of the 
Phoenix:
> "You need to mean it Potter! You need to want to cause pain- to 
enjoy it-righteous anger won't hurt me for long"
> 

Tonks:
I think that you are both right. The thing necessary for a spell to 
work is #1 - Intention. You have to "want" the spell to do what the 
spell is made to do. And you have to want it enough to put all of 
your energy into it. Intention is the primary mindset for 
spellcasting. The other important thing is faith in your ability to 
do it. The third is being able to harness the power necessary to do 
it.

Snape may not have wanted to do it in the way that LV would have, 
but he was able to because he is a very experience wizard. As an 
experienced wizard who can put his emotions aside, or bring up the 
ones he needs when he needs to, he was able to bring himself to do 
what he knew he had to do. So in that way he had the intention to do 
an AK. You could say he wanted to fullfill DD's orders. His 
intention was to AK DD and he knew that he could and he knew how to 
draw upon the energy that he need to do it. 

I am sure that an AK, as DD says is not as easy to do as not only 
the inocent might think, but not as easy as anyone might think. It 
is a very powerful curse. And I think to kill an animal is one thing 
and to kill a human being is another. I think that it takes more 
psychic energy to kill a human being.  I suspect that if Draco had 
tried an AK on DD it would not have worked, because Draco does not 
have the power and experience to pull it off. An AK is not like a 
Muggle firearm. Spells depend on the psychic energy and skill of the 
Wizard. Unlike a Muggle gun, I don't think you can "accidently" kill 
someone.

Tonks_op