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Posts: 625 · Joined: May 3, 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 625

Possibly anyone could do it, but only a very powerful person could kill with it. If, lets say, Ginny's little 2 year old sister who doesn't exist said it, it wouldn't do anything.
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Posts: 111 · Joined: May 4, 2008 Location: PA Posts: 111

i dont thinks its skill that make up the unforgivable curses but of "will" to do so like how Bleatrix Mentions in Order of the Phoenix and how harry rementions it in deathly hallows. Lamon Terms: If u have the will to kill, you can do it. As showed by Goyle and Crabbe
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I think that its something like the other unforgivable curses, like bellatrix explained to harry, you have to really mean it for it to take affect.

Posts: 22432 · Posted: May 6, 2008 6:56 am Post subject:

I think it's a sort-of combination of the two... magical ability and a want to do harm, in this case killing. It's not a secret that Crabbe and Goyle suck at Potions, but we really don't know much about them besides that. I wonder if they are just like other students who excel in one area and fall apart in other areas. Some students are great at math, but are not so good at... gym, for instance while other students love gym and sports, but when it comes to classes, they do not excel in some areas. Some people love reading and work hard at English, but fall apart when it comes to math. I think Crabbe and Goyle are like those students... they found an area of studies that interest them and worked hard to excel in that area.
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Posts: 1897 · Posted: May 6, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject:

Yes they would have to be
yet crabbe had been learning stuff like that all year in Dark Arts

Posts: 91 · Joined: May 2, 2008 Location: TheNetherlands Posts: 91

I actually think the Avada kedavra makes it too easy to kill. One thing thought, the average teenager thing with Crabb. That it true, that is werid, but he didnt kill anyone with it. Maybe they would only have gotten a nosebleed of it.
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I don't think it's really the thing about killing that person I think it's more of wanting to kill somebody. Remember in HBP one of the DEs (I think it was either Dolohov or Rowle, but I"m not sure) was casting the Killing Curse everywhere he could reach and ended up hitting another DE. Now I seriously doubt he wanted one of his allies dead while in the middle of a war, but he did want to kill somebody to protect himself and just happened to hit a friend.
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[quote="Flaming Fury"]I don't think it's really the thing about killing that person I think it's more of wanting to kill somebody. Remember in HBP one of the DEs (I think it was either Dolohov or Rowle, but I"m not sure) was casting the Killing Curse everywhere he could reach and ended up hitting another DE. Now I seriously doubt he wanted one of his allies dead while in the middle of a war, but he did want to kill somebody to protect himself and just happened to hit a friend.[/quote]

i thought taht it was you could only cast the spell if you truely meant to kill the person.

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I don't think that could be it cause then how could that one Death Eater kill the other one. I think it's more of wanting to perform the act of murder.
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[quote="Flaming Fury"]I don't think that could be it cause then how could that one Death Eater kill the other one. I think it's more of wanting to perform the act of murder.[/quote]

well thats what i meant that you really want to kill the person

Posts: 4 · Joined: Jul 4, 2008 Posts: 4

Sorry I thought you meant kill THAT person, like I want to kill Jon Smith. I meant you have to want to kill whoever gets hit by the curse.
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