Counting AKs (Was Re: [HPforGrownups] Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Tom Riddle?)

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178116

Lee Kaiwen
  > Heck, any reasonable guy would figure after going
  > oh-for-three perhaps AK *wasn't* the best choice;
  > but LV doesn't seem to have had that much imagination.

Bart:
  > One - Baby Harry
  > Two - GOF
  > Three - DH, one, works, but Harry gets better, minor backfire.
  > Four - DH, two, major backfire

  > And wasn't there one in OOP?

Was there? Of course, my POV for the above statement was BEFORE LV fired 
off YAAK (Yet Another Avadra Kedrava) during the final duel. After, the 
duel, of course, I'd admend my statement to "LV doesn't have any 
imagination (or anything else) at all." :-)

If there was one in OotP, then my statement should read "oh-for-four".

But since in the final duel LV's spell ricocheted off Harry's, I suppose 
in one sense it probably doesn't really much matter WHAT the spell was 
-- though I've always thought the whole idea of ricocheting and 
rebounding spells was a bit -- umm -- problematic. In any case, the 
ricocheting in the final duel seems to violate the laws of physics: if 
LV's spell went out and ricocheted directly back at him, shouldn't 
Harry's have done the same? Where DID Harry's spell ricochet to? And 
does the fact that a simple Expelliarimus was able to deflect an AK 
suggest the two are of equal "power" or "force"?

--CJ (who confesses he is NOT a physicist)