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Posts: 195 · Joined: Oct 19, 2007 Location: Hogwarts Posts: 195

I wonder. Will this spell kill you if it only grazes a shoulder, or does it have to hit you full on. In the books, the only times this spell was used, it either hit someone full on in the chest, or missed completely. How do you think this sell works?
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Posts: 27242 · Posted: October 25, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject:

I don't think it matters where it hits you or how hard, if it hits you, you're gone.
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I agree. It a killing curse. Pure and simple.
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Posts: 807 · Posted: October 26, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject:

your garaunteed to die if it hits you at all
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Posts: 50 · Posted: October 26, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: homing device?

Maybe, if the spell is going to hit, it just aims itself for the heart- I could see a ray of light doing that- it's fast enough- you point your wand and if your aim is close enough, you get someone full-on. If you're not, you might as well be shooting straight up into the air for all the ray will do. Like a Tv remote control. ZAP! As long as you're in the area of effect, you might as well be dead on.
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Posts: 21 · Posted: October 27, 2007 1:20 am Post subject:

Kind of like "heat-seeking"? Sounds *dead-on* to me.
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good question, i dont know maybe both?
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Posts: 23 · Joined: Oct 27, 2007 Location: London, England Posts: 23

The spell is a killing curse. end of story. your hit your gone. it can scratch a fingernail and u will still die.
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Posts: 195 · Joined: Oct 19, 2007 Location: Hogwarts Posts: 195

ok, i get it. Its kind of upsetting that a person can use a spell like that without paying a cost of energy or something. seems too easy to kill.
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That's the idea, it's so quick and simplistic. It's the beauty of the finality of death.
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Posts: 2534 · Posted: October 28, 2007 11:46 am Post subject:

I don't know for sure, but I would guess that if it hit you at all you would die because its a killing curse, so I'd think it would have to kill you.
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Posts: 3895 · Posted: October 28, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

I imagine it like a fast small bullet. It can hit or miss. I doubt it would just graze someone.

A new question.

Would a single Protego spell last againest a flurry of Unforgiveables, or would it, like a shield or a bubble, break?
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heh.

this is interesting.

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actually i've been wondering whether it is possible to block or deflect. I imagine there are shielding spells that are more difficult, but more powerful than protego. Or if not blocking completely, but taking off the deadly aspect of the spell and just having it be a severe impedimenta/sectumsempre.
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even the strongest blow, though unblockable, can be parried. If you can fling a statue in front of the spell to deflect it, there has got to be some way (magically) to parry the blow, not block, but parry...
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Listen to importer Moddy in book 4. It's unblockable.[/quote]

yea i just read that part like 1 hour ago lol

Posts: 3895 · Posted: October 30, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject:

True, if the Killing Curse hit a statue or something, JKR lets us beilieve that some curses or spells can 'bounce' around until it runs out or it hits a living target.
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heh.

this is interesting.

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It's a killing curse even if it grazes you, you die..you die reaaal goood Twisted Evil

Well, I THINK a killing curse would kill you, you never know with these things..once tried the Imperio curse on a fly..dident work it got eaten by my cat
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