Rowling is not completely clear that Voldemort cast the killing curse and that Harry cast his trademark disarming curse. I have searched Yahoo! Answers but can't find anyone with my theory:
I think H. cast the killing curse because he knew V. would be expecting the disarming curse - H. was cautioned earlier not to make that his trademark. AND V. was loosing confidence that the killing curse would even work on H. - it failed twice before!
I know the paragraph after the curses were cast says that V.'s green jet came from his wand, but it was never clear that only the killing curse was a green jet.
At the beginning of the 4 page dialog between H. and V., H. quotes the prophesy and declares that V. will be the one who dies - to me, that means H. fulling intended to use the killing curse.
V. may not have been convinced that H. was the true master of the Elder wand, but by disarming H. first, it would certainly have ensured him as the master, THEN the killing curse would work.
Theories?...
2007-07-30 06:29:50 · 9 answers · asked by Bruce O 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
you said it peferctly...
2007-07-30 06:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Truth hurts 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Killing Cast
2016-09-27 21:16:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seemed pretty clear to me that voltermort cast the killing curse because:
a) The disarming curse is red light (think back to the goblet of fire duel)
b) Harry knew or guessed that by using the diarming curse the elder wand would come to him.
c) Voldermot was killed by the elder wand(which was in voldermots possision at the begening of the duel, but it came to harry because of the whole malfoy thing)
d) Voltermont thought he was the true master of the elder wand because he killed snape, who he believed was the true master after dumbledore
2007-07-30 06:50:23 · answer #3 · answered by Whoa!!Whoa!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry didn't kill anyone in this book. He didn't even destroy any of the horcruxes himself. The locket was destroyed by Ron, the goblet was destroyed by Hermione, the Diadem was destroyed by Crabbe's fire, Nagini was destroyed by Neville, Voldemort killed the Horcrux that was in Harry and then he killed himself by attacking Harry with a wand that recognized Harry as it's master.
Harry would never have cast the killing curse. More than once someone told him that he needed to be ready to kill and his answer was always that he wouldn't do that because that was what Voldemort would do.
2007-07-30 08:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by KL 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, because Harry is really the master of the Elder Wand the Elder Wand would not harm it's master. So the killing curse cast by Voldy rebound of him. Sooo...technically Voldy was doing suicide.
2007-07-30 06:36:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Voldemort uses the killing curse which hits Harry's disarming curse in midair. This causes it to backfire and hit Voldemort instead.(not the first time that has happened)
2007-07-30 06:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by goodanswer 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Voldemorts killing curse backfired on him.
2007-07-30 07:16:46 · answer #7 · answered by I Support Ron Paul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No no no no. the spells rebounded. Harry would never use avada Kavada that was the whole point of harry and made him superior to Voldemort
2007-07-30 06:42:26 · answer #8 · answered by kris 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wha...? I think it is perfectly clear that V cast the curse at H and H deflected it back to V. That is:
V + KC = H - ((KC + V) / X)
Where X is the percentage of possible failure. So - now that it is clear I wonder what other novels J.K would like us to read next.
2007-07-30 06:33:42 · answer #9 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋