[HPforGrownups] Re: Curse that killed Bellatrix

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 187669

sartoris22:
> Like Ikotur, I wondered if Molly used the killing curse. I hoped that she didn't because it splits the soul and is punishable by imprisonment in Azkaban. 
Bart:
It's not the AK spell; it's murder that splits the soul. And the soul 
CAN heal. And, effectively speaking, there was no ministry when Molly 
cast the spell. Note that even the ministry played fast and loose with 
it; they allowed Barty/Crouch to use it on a spider as a demonstration 
to his class.

    Bart