Babbling on on Avada Kadavra mechanics

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 172462

On Jul-24-07, at 7:50 PM, HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com wrote:

> bamf:
>
> It's also WHY Harry survived the AK. Voldie killed
> the piece of his soul that was in Harry, instead of
> Harry, IMHO.

doug:

Hmm This twigged something for me. It would seem there was a fifty /  
fifty chance of the Avada Kadavra taking one or the other soul. Same  
pretty much with the Veil or a Dementor. Obviously the difference is  
that the "soul" has to be willing to die for the Avada Kadavra to  
rebound. It is effective, but it's the sacrifice which "comes back"  
on the caster. (?)

So, as Voldemort's soul was unwilling to die, *it* was the one which  
was killed.

I would as yet like to see Rowling's explanation of the mechanics  
here, because, as I understand it, it was Lily's sacrifice which  
caused the rebound, but presumably the spell which killed Voldemort  
was the one which he cast at Harry.

Nope, nope. I think I see.

Avada Kadavra takes the Life, not the Soul. So it was Harry's  
sacrificial state of mind - for the sake of others. So as Lily's  
sacrifice protected Harry, and Harry's sacrifice protected others...  
his Death separated the two souls he harboured, and it was because he  
was Master of Death, that he didn't actually die... (?)

So why was Voldy blasted from his body the first time and not the  
second? Why was the house at Godric's Hollow destroyed but nothing in  
the Forbidden Forest?

hmmmmm...

As I said in another post, the story is driven by character, not  
physics.

Does Sacrifice linger then as an extent force?

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