A Simpler Scenario

[nkafkafi]

> 
> Ginger:
> I thought of the Barely-nosebleeding!Crouch!Moody thing too.  Do we 
> know there'd be no green light?  Maybe more of a sea foam green than 
> emerald? <---kidding
> 
> DD was bleeding at the mouth when Harry found him at the bottom of the 
> tower.  Perhaps Snape hit him with a purposely wimpy AK and just gave 
> him a bloody lip.  
> 

Neri:
Actually C!M's exact words were "I doubt I'd get so much as a
nosebleed". He didn't think he'd get even *that*. But your joke
precisely illustrates what's wrong with the concept of gradual AK. If
it existed you could picture the students in Auror Academy training on
each other with wimpies. Or "hey guys, we want these suspects alive.
Put your AK on Stun!" And "it was an accident, Your Honor! We only
meant to use Nosebleed Level, but he provoked us and we kind of lost
control on our emotions". It would dilute the thematic power of the
whole Killing Curse concept into nothing. And you could count on
seasoned DEs to know the difference between a wimpy and the real
thing. "Hey, Reg! Let's see if you have what it takes to be a real
Death Eater. No wimpies!"


> Ginger, relieved to have heard that fellow filker (and HPFGU member) 
> Jason LeBeouf, who lived in a suburb of New Orleans, is alive and well 
> and staying with relatives.  Just thought I'd pass that along.

Neri:
I'm glad to hear that. I loved his filks in HH.