Molly's curse - something other than AK?

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 173615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenanydot" <Jenanydot at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Personally, I think it's likely that Molly used some other powerful
> curse to finish Bellatrix off.  I think that if she specifically 
used
> Avada Kedavra, Rowling would have said so.  Also, it's stressed 
that
> Molly's curse hits Bellatrix in the heart:
> 
> "Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit 
her
> squarely in the chest, directly over her heart."
> 
> It seems to me that because Rowling is so specific as to WHERE the
> curse hits, Molly may very well have used a different curse, one 
that
> is only fatal if it hits a fatal mark.  The lack of any mention of 
a
> green light, which has been so prevalent throughout the series
> whenever a Killing Curse was used, also strikes me as odd if Molly
> indeed used that particular curse.
> 

Allie:

I like the idea that it was something other than AK, because despite 
the war situation, I still don't like the "good guys" using the 
Unforgivables.  At the end of OoTP, they're horrified when Professor 
McGonagall is hit with "three stunners to the chest, and at her 
age," and she has to be treated at St. Mungo's.  Maybe Molly's spell 
was a particularly powerful stunner to the heart.  That would do 
it.  :)