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Defining Killing and The Avada Kedavra's Possible Origins

Apr 22, 2007 16:35

Defining Killing(a) Intent to kill, mens rea in the law, literally the guilty mind. To establish whether a homicide is unlawful the intent of the killer has to be determined. The difficult part of this is that there is guilty intent in an attempt also, as well as in secondary offenders, but I'll keep it as simple as possible. Lord Voldemort is ( Read more... )

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catmaries April 22 2007, 23:01:07 UTC

Nice work! Very interesting, I like the theory of the AK originally being a healing spell being twisted toward evil.

lenaf007 April 23 2007, 19:52:46 UTC

This is a very fascinating piece. I really thought that bit on curing fevers and inflammations was interesting. You've certainly piqued my curiosity concerning this. Sectrum Sempra and Septimus Severus are disturbingly similar for some reason to me...

Thank you for posting this!

anonymous April 26 2007, 02:10:39 UTC

Fascinating stuff! And I had always thought that "Kedavra" was related to "cadaver" ... which seems to come from Latin.

Why, Thank you goddlefrood April 26 2007, 02:51:19 UTC

You really are too kind. Cadaver would have been far too easy ;)