We have seen that spells can be blocked. Does that mean that the killing curse could also be blocked. For example, when dumbldore and voldemort were about to face off, voldemort could not just use the killing curse because dumbldore would just block it, is this correct?
shareNo there is no way to block avada kadavra. Only person to survive it was Harry and that was a different type of old magic.
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it cannot be blocked with a shield spell but can be blocked by a physical object pleced before the target.
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This is true as seen in the movie( don't remember what exactly happened in the book), but they always said it was unblockable.
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Like a trash can lid?
shareIt can be blocked. Albus blocked with his phoenix. And it is also blocked when wanda share the same core... You took so long to respond to me so i did research on my own
shareThe killing curse can't be blocked/stopped once it has been enacted. But the victim can be saved if another living vessel is sacrificed/intereferes before it hits the victim.
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Is that why the young person dies in a later book when two wizards were fighting in a room while she watched? I remember the book stating spells were bouncing around the room until she got hit.
I'm not sure what scene you are talking about. iy sounds like the scene in the coffee shop where the trio fights some deatheaters and the waitress was hit by accident. if so she wasn't killed. they were not using the killing curse.
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If that's the scene braind was talking about then, I bet the death eaters only intended to knock them out, a killing curse isn't commonly enacted in petty fights. My guess, the wand loses its power once the killing curse hits the victim and it takes a while before its restored.
тrυe coυrage ιѕ noт aвoυт ĸnowιng wнen тo тaĸe a lιғe, вυт wнen тo ѕpare one.
I think that briand10 is talking about Dumbledore's sister, Ariana.
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It cannot be blocked by use of the usual defensive spells, however you can duck out of its way or move something solid in the way as Dumbledore did with the statue to save Harry's life. It is unknown whether you could conjure something in the way.
I don't think you can block it per say but you can interfere with a solid object etc so it hits that instead of you
It can be blocked with the Expelliarmus spell. It's shown several times in the films. Dumbledore uses it against Voldemort at the beginning of their duel.
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Obviously most people in this thread haven´t watched "Goblet of Fire"; there Harry Potter blocks one Avada Kedavra from no less than Voldemort with a simple Expelliarmus. The AK can be blocked; end of discussion.
sharetrue. in this instance that did happen. but that happened only because Voldemort's and Harry's wands share the same cores. had they been using wands with different cores, the AK would have killed Harry.
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J.K Rowling herself said it can't be blocked unless you put an object in front of the intended target. But the actual spell can't be blocked by anything. Don't know why people are saying something different things.
The reason Harry could block Voldemort was cause their wands had the same core. otherwise Voldy would have killed Harry.
I don't think it makes any sense that they can't block AK. I mean, they can block pretty much every other spell, but it's Rowling's creation; obviously her explanation is canon.
Personally, I'd prefer it if they could block AK. Otherwise it just seems way too easy to kill other wizards. Why bother with any other spells in a duel to death? The wand battles should have been much shorter than shown in the novels with that logic in mind.
The movies never implied that kind of logic thankfully. Moody did say only one person had survived it (i.e. Harry), but my interpretation was that he meant surviving being hit by AK. I like that logic concerning AK, but unfortunately Rowling offered another explanation, which we have to go by whether we like it or not.
You're forgetting that Avada Kadavra is one of the unforgivable curses, and would get you sent to Azkaban for using it. But, yes, you'd think more dark witches/wizards would use it. However witches and wizards not on the dark side really wouldn't use that curse, and that would really put them at a disadvantage.
shareI am confused. In Deathly Hallows 2 i see green flashes everywherw(assuming those are deathspells). And everyone is blocking them. Even between Voldermort and Harry there is a battle where harry blocks V's spells. And they are all green flashes!
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