sinsboldly
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15 Apr 2008, 11:55 am
The tart did it for publicity.
(jk, J.K.
)Hardy hardy har har har.
Ragtime, your pronouncements of condemnation will come back to you when you can least defend them, the belief system you espouse warns you and confirms it.
15 Apr 2008, 5:19 pm
A good magic spell to invent would be one that counters stupidity on the part of ignorant people... oh wait, i remember now, there is one. Avada Kedavra! 
Hmm... one of my better quotes. I'm putting that as my sig.
16 Apr 2008, 4:41 am
16 Apr 2008, 7:02 pm
Hmm... one of my better quotes. I'm putting that as my sig.
It's "Abacadabra" not "Avada Kedavra." Be sure before you add your quote.
16 Apr 2008, 7:06 pm
16 Apr 2008, 8:17 pm
Hmm... one of my better quotes. I'm putting that as my sig.
It's "Abacadabra" not "Avada Kedavra." Be sure before you add your quote.
No, i think you misunderstood me. I meant to say "Avada Kedavra" because that is the incantation AS PRINTED in Harry Potter books IV-VII for a curse designed to eliminate life from the person/animal at which it is cast. "Abracadabra" is just a mispronounciation.
16 Apr 2008, 8:39 pm
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17 Apr 2008, 9:37 pm
What kind of a world would we have if that's all it took to kill someone, two little words? Obviously I haven't read all the books in JK's series. Didn't even finish #1. So in the Harry Potter universe, can someone just use the murder-spell casually? Any limitations on its use? Must the intended victim be able to see/hear the caster of this spell? Maybe I could just think of someone I wanted dead and then ...
And where does all this magickal power come from, anyway? I've seen the first HP movie, and there doesn't seem to be any consequences for distorting the laws of nature as they do. Whatever happend to the Threefold Law? 
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17 Apr 2008, 11:58 pm
And where does all this magickal power come from, anyway? I've seen the first HP movie, and there doesn't seem to be any consequences for distorting the laws of nature as they do. Whatever happend to the Threefold Law?
(psssssst. . .they know they are just playing magic, they know it is a game. That's the fun of having their own knock knock jokes. They have suspended their disbelief for a good yarn. They are having their own club, got the handshake and the card and the key to the second floor girls' lavatory.)
18 Apr 2008, 3:22 pm
And where does all this magickal power come from, anyway? I've seen the first HP movie, and there doesn't seem to be any consequences for distorting the laws of nature as they do. Whatever happend to the Threefold Law?
Warning: Spoilers ahead - Highlight to read
Actually, the Avada Kedavra is one of three Unforgivable Curses, which is worth a life sentence in Azkaban if caught and convicted (Azkaban is wizard jail, which is much worse than normal jail thanks to the dementors), so you don't just use it casually. NTM the fact that it is a difficult spell to pull off, requiring a large portion of one's magic as well as a large amount of hatred towards the recipient of the curse... you have to WANT them to die right then and there for it to work. And finally, if someone kills another person using the curse, the is some damage done to their soul, the effects of which are mysterious but are one of the driving factors behind the plot of the story, as the damage can be used to create a Horcrux, an item that grants immortality at the cost of a part of one's soul (Which Voldemort does several times over). Generally, wizards who damage their souls this way are less powerful in ways, and are evil past the point of redemption.
So as to your question, no, it's not something someone would just use out of the blue, as there would be serious consequences for the caster, conseqences that would cause a decent wizard to think twice before using it. OF course, Voldemort and his Death Eaters use it constantly on Muggles and wizards, but they are the bad guys of the series, and don't really set much by wizarding laws. In other words, there's no physical limit to using the curse, but there are serious conseqences to using it that limit it's use.
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