Opal Necklace and Dumbledore

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 169726

---  "limerent4ever" <limerent4ever at ...> wrote:
>
> Steve/bboyminn wrote:
> 
> > so unless the sender was foolish enough to include
> > the Warning Card, how would Dumbledore, or anyone 
> > else, know it was a cursed necklace? ...<snip>
> > I think Draco hoped that Dumbledore might open it 
> > out of curiosity and before realizing it, pick up 
> > the necklace, in which case he would then be dead. 
> > But that is a lot to hope for.... <snip>
> 
> limerent here:
> 
> I was mentioning the card only to show ... that it 
> states that it causes *muggle* deaths.  Since 
> Dumbledore is not a muggle my question is what did 
> Draco expect to happen to Dumbledore?
> 
> Interesting stuff about opals.  I hadn't heard about
> that before.
> 
> Thanks!
>

bboyminn:

Notice the effect on Katie, who is a witch. She only
escaped death according to Dumbledore because the
smallest amount of skin touched for only the briefest
amount of time. Dumbledore indicates she just barely
escaped death. So, the curse was EXTREMELY strong and
quite capable of killing a wizard very quickly.

However, wizards being wizards, an intelligent,
knowledgable, skilled wizard might be able to soften
the effects if he acted quickly. But notice how fast
Katie responded to the curse, it was almost instant,
and even in her case, was very extreme. 

So, it the case of THIS cursed necklace, if Dumbledore
had touched it, he would have been affected too quickly
to respond and save himself.

Or so it seems.

Steve/bboyminn