Hi Jim.
I always got the idea that it would be rather like having any custom item
made for you, whether it's a sword, a baseball bat, a coat or whatever.
Others can use it relatively well, but because it is individually taylored
with your own personal weight, balance or build in mind, it is unlikely to
sute others as well as it sutes you.
indeed, at the end of the 7th book, when voldemort has the unbeatable wand,
it is not the case that it doesn't work at all, sinse we see him doing lots
of magic with it (including killing snape and setting Nevil on fire), rather
it is that the wand doesn't seem to be anything special.
voldemort can use it, but only in the hands of it's true owner, would it
actually be the legendary wand it appears.
As to the killing curse, well in the harry potter universe, it seems that
the more powerful spells such as the patronus chalm require not just correct
words and gestures, but the will and intention of the user.
When Harry attempts the cruciatus curse on belatrix lestrange after she
kills sirius black in Order of the Phenix, it fails to actually cause her
any serious pain sinse as she says, the wielder has to have a real desire to
hurt another person and something of an enjoyment.
harry's rage at his Godfathers' death, while justified, wouldn't actually be
enough for him to perform the curse, sinse he did not have the sadistic
streak necessary.
thus, I imagine the killing curse works in a very similar way, that the
person performing it has to have a real desire to end the life of another.
on this basis, it wouldn't be the wand, but the intention of the wizard
using it, ---- rather the way that to kill someone with a sword you wouldn't
need a specifically made sword that was right for you, but you would need
the intention to actually perform the killing thrust with it.
This is I presume why the unforgivable curses are deemed as so bad, not just
because they are dangerous weapons, but because of the kind of mind that
needs to be behind them.
equally this says how serious it is when the ministry authorize auras to use
the curses on suspected criminals.
Of course, all this is very much going off into the misty marshes of
speculation, though hopefully with at least some basis from the books.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kitchen" <[email protected]>
To: "dark" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Harry Potter Trivia 2
Hi Dark,
Oh yeah, thanks. But strange that a wand picks the person, but others can
use it even for such serious spells as the avada kedavra spell.
BFN
Jim
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