If avada kedavra one shots anything

[侍Kage]

Then why nobody just spam the sht out of it, especially criminals. They can literally one shot anyone and get away with it, how do they get jailed in azkaban?

I'm not into HP universe, I watched only once years ago. I'm planning to watch again, but yeah everyone and their mothers know this spell. Why use other spells when you have avada kedavra?

[parent child bowl]

You have to be a psychopath to be able to cast the unforgivable curses. So no, not everyone can cast them and it would immediately out the users as giant ♥♥♥♥♥.

[Corrderio]

I could be wrong but I think in order to cast the forbidden spells you also have to have the intent. So if you cast it on someone you damn well need to mean you WANT them dead.

[Clown Fiesta]

Originally posted by Corrderio:

I could be wrong but I think in order to cast the forbidden spells you also have to have the intent. So if you cast it on someone you damn well need to mean you WANT them dead.

yea you can overhear 2 dark wizards talking about it in the forbidden forest

one of them was talking about using avada kedavra and the other was saying you need to have both the talent and the intent to use it - and he wasn't sure if the other wizard have what it takes to use it

[侍Kage]

It makes no sense, a powerful spell like this should have a consequences. You:re taking life.. you should lose something each time you cast this, like; losing nose, eyes, hands etc. Literally a free spell, i don't think saying unforgivable makes people stop casting it lol.

[Gabriel Angelos]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

Then why nobody just spam the sht out of it, especially criminals. They can literally one shot anyone and get away with it, how do they get jailed in azkaban?

I'm not into HP universe, I watched only once years ago. I'm planning to watch again, but yeah everyone and their mothers know this spell. Why use other spells when you have avada kedavra?

You need to have intent to actually kill the person. As Alastor said to Harry's class, they could all cast it at him together and it would have been nothing.

[Clown Fiesta]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

It makes no sense, a powerful spell like this should have a consequences. You:re taking life.. you should lose something each time you cast this, like; losing nose, eyes, hands etc. Literally a free spell, i don't think saying unforgivable makes people stop casting it lol.

you tell that to all the gun nuts in the US

mass shooting is like a national pasttime in the US now, but these gun nuts still cry "but..but.....guns don't kill people bruh!!!"

[EleventhStar]

there is only two ways the unforgivable curses make sense:

1) there is some poorly communicated lore why they are worse than regular killing/torture/mind charms, e.g. it affects the soul in a way regular ones don't.

2) it's a story written for children so the entire reasoning was "killing is bad" without thinking about it too much.

[Roobik]

Originally posted by Clown Fiesta:

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

It makes no sense, a powerful spell like this should have a consequences. You:re taking life.. you should lose something each time you cast this, like; losing nose, eyes, hands etc. Literally a free spell, i don't think saying unforgivable makes people stop casting it lol.

you tell that to all the gun nuts in the US

mass shooting is like a national pasttime in the US now, but these gun nuts still cry "but..but.....guns don't kill people bruh!!!"

Why was it necessary to take the conversation down this path??

We're talking about a fantasy game where go to school to learn how to levitate objects and throw fire from your wand, so you can fight off giant trolls that are wearing armor made from enchanted goblin metal, created by a group of goblins that are trying to take over the world using ancient magic that paintings that can move and talk tell you about.

GTFO out of here with that ♥♥♥♥.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Mumm-Ra:

You need to have intent to actually kill the person. As Alastor said to Harry's class, they could all cast it at him together and it would have been nothing.

but then why not make the intent unforgivable, rather than the spell? (you know basically use real world definitions for murder, manslaughter, etc.)

like what happens in the harry potter world if you murder someone with a knife or fireball?

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

It makes no sense, a powerful spell like this should have a consequences. You:re taking life.. you should lose something each time you cast this, like; losing nose, eyes, hands etc. Literally a free spell, i don't think saying unforgivable makes people stop casting it lol.

You do lose something. It's not tangible, but look at the people who cast these curses in the books and the games. They are shells of their former selves. Complete socio/psychopaths with no empathy.

The game just doesn't have a system to go that deep.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

what happens in the harry potter world if you murder someone with a knife or fireball?

You just go to jail, like irl. Murder is still murder.
Though, the unforgivable curses require you to be so hateful, so rotten inside, that the idea is there is no coming back from that. You really need to want to kill or torture your target to cast these spells.

It's essentially like the dark side of the force in Star Wars.

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

but then why not make the intent unforgivable, rather than the spell? (you know basically use real world definitions for murder, manslaughter, etc.)

like what happens in the harry potter world if you murder someone with a knife or fireball?

Because there are ways to kill somebody with a weapon that aren't murder. As english is not my mother tongue, I don't know what the legal term for accidentally killing somebody is.

Avada Kedavra is an instant murder conviction because the motive always is to kill the target. There are no accidents with that spell.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by parent child bowl:

I don't know what the legal term for accidentally killing somebody is

In the states, we call that Man Slaughter.

[侍Kage]

Originally posted by Stalking Reaptor:

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

It makes no sense, a powerful spell like this should have a consequences. You:re taking life.. you should lose something each time you cast this, like; losing nose, eyes, hands etc. Literally a free spell, i don't think saying unforgivable makes people stop casting it lol.

You do lose something. It's not tangible, but look at the people who cast these curses in the books and the games. They are shells of their former selves. Complete socio/psychopaths with no empathy.

The game just doesn't have a system to go that deep.

But then again there are so many criminals who is intent is to kill people , I'm not talking about the game tbh i'm talking about the universe. Including books, movies etc. But you don't see them casting this many times. Voldemort can't be the only one who is so rotten inside.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

Originally posted by Stalking Reaptor:

You do lose something. It's not tangible, but look at the people who cast these curses in the books and the games. They are shells of their former selves. Complete socio/psychopaths with no empathy.

The game just doesn't have a system to go that deep.

But then again there are so many criminals who is intent is to kill people , I'm not talking about the game tbh i'm talking about the universe. Including books, movies etc. But you don't see them casting this many times. Voldemort can't be the only one who is so rotten inside.

It's cast many times by all of the Death Eaters. Every time they are casting, it's pretty much exclusively Avada Kadavra.

Like I said in another comment, it's like succumbing to the dark side of the force in Star Wars. The amount of corruption and hatred needed to cast these spells is immense. A good parallel is when Bellatrix killed Sirius. Harry was right there, on the cusp of casting it to kill her, he heard Voldemort's whispers telling him to cast it, but Harry knew better.
This is exactly the same as Palpatine pushing Anakin to do terrible things.