[HPforGrownups] Liberal Bans, Re: Hi everyone -- banning the books

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 159691

> Kemper:
> So the book on Horcruxes is banned, but why not the book that tells
> Hermione the magical words to kill someone, Avada Kedavra?  I don't
> think there's canon to support that Hermione actually read the
> Unforgivables in a book, but come on.  She's Muggle-born and reared,
> how is it that she knows of the curse and not Harry?


montims:  I understand now what you were saying, and I'm not arguing with
you, but when we first meet Hermione, on the train, she knows all about
Harry from reading about him being AK'd in various modern history books.
And the words to the Avada Kadavra spell are precisely that, surely - all
you need are the words and the intent.


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