Another Speculation on the Big One
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deathtocapslockWhy single out AK from other lethal curses to make it Unforgivable in 1717, with the strictest penalty on its use?
It can’t be just that it’s a Killing Curse. There are plenty of curses that kill in canon. Almost all of them are much more painful and messy than Avada Kedavra (entrail-expelling). Some of them are also uncurable once invoked (Dumbledore’s hand).
And surely there are other curses out there that a Shield Spell cannot block? (Not canon, but it seems reasonable.) Even if not, is that characteristic alone enough to explain the superstitious horror with which it’s regarded? If I invented an unblockable form of Stupefy, would that become the Fourth Unforgivable?
Well, what are the characteristics of Avada Kedavra? Besides that Protego is useless to block it?
It kills instantly. And, apparently, painlessly (certainly the only person we talked to after experiencing it, Harry, remembered no pain). And without shedding blood.
Why is that self-evidently worse than a spell that causes blood, mess, pain, and a lingering death?
And who would be motivated to invent such a thing?
Oh, and by the way, unlike all the other spells we learn in canon, its invocation is not derived from Latin.
Not? From what language, then?
From Aramaic or Hebrew.
Oh, and what religious tradition demands that animals slaughtered for human consumption be killed without shedding blood and as humanely as possible?
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Avada Kedavra was invented by Jews. (They may have a shield against it too, though in that case I’d have expected Tom to find it. However, he wouldn’t have shared, so absence of evidence is not evidence of absence)
Its use in 1718 Europe to slaughter a family’s beef cow signified that that wizard family was trying to keep kosher.
Avada Kedavra was not made Unforgivable because it’s the Killing Curse. It was made Unforgivable originally because it’s that filthy Jewish killing curse.
And shortly after the adoption of Secrecy, European Pureblood society, having locked the doors against Muggles, decided to clean house and purge the remnants of those nasty Jewish influences on their magic.
Notice Trelawney teaches neither Kabbalah or gematriya.
AK was made Unforgivable as part of the Wizarding World’s Reconquista.
It can’t be just that it’s a Killing Curse. There are plenty of curses that kill in canon. Almost all of them are much more painful and messy than Avada Kedavra (entrail-expelling). Some of them are also uncurable once invoked (Dumbledore’s hand).
And surely there are other curses out there that a Shield Spell cannot block? (Not canon, but it seems reasonable.) Even if not, is that characteristic alone enough to explain the superstitious horror with which it’s regarded? If I invented an unblockable form of Stupefy, would that become the Fourth Unforgivable?
Well, what are the characteristics of Avada Kedavra? Besides that Protego is useless to block it?
It kills instantly. And, apparently, painlessly (certainly the only person we talked to after experiencing it, Harry, remembered no pain). And without shedding blood.
Why is that self-evidently worse than a spell that causes blood, mess, pain, and a lingering death?
And who would be motivated to invent such a thing?
Oh, and by the way, unlike all the other spells we learn in canon, its invocation is not derived from Latin.
Not? From what language, then?
From Aramaic or Hebrew.
Oh, and what religious tradition demands that animals slaughtered for human consumption be killed without shedding blood and as humanely as possible?
*
Avada Kedavra was invented by Jews. (They may have a shield against it too, though in that case I’d have expected Tom to find it. However, he wouldn’t have shared, so absence of evidence is not evidence of absence)
Its use in 1718 Europe to slaughter a family’s beef cow signified that that wizard family was trying to keep kosher.
Avada Kedavra was not made Unforgivable because it’s the Killing Curse. It was made Unforgivable originally because it’s that filthy Jewish killing curse.
And shortly after the adoption of Secrecy, European Pureblood society, having locked the doors against Muggles, decided to clean house and purge the remnants of those nasty Jewish influences on their magic.
Notice Trelawney teaches neither Kabbalah or gematriya.
AK was made Unforgivable as part of the Wizarding World’s Reconquista.
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