When I watch these videos I have a feeling that Harry Potter and magic is real!! Like the way he discusses the ministry of magic and the year. And how serious he is while he says and makes everything look real.....
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In the department of mysteries we have confirmed that the disarming spell is the only way to stop the killing curse. It's been proven that being expelled is much worse than dying.
Oh my god, I was reading this and thinking yeah, solid theory, it'd be hard to cast it without a wand and Harry's connection let him stop it with Expelliarmus and then you pulled back the curtain and I walked face first into the fucking joke, absolutely priceless.
I think you're almost right. But I think Avada Kedavra doesn't summon the spirits of the dead, but Death itself (taking away the soul with it's black wings). That's why Avada Kedavra is a violation of the rules of nature (Death is supposed to come by itself, not summoned by a wizard). And that's why using Avada Kedavra breaks the soul of the wizard who use it. And it makes a connection between the three brothers (who probably invented the three unforgivable curses) and their "encounter" with Death itself and the three Holows who are very probably tied to death.
Why do you think Avada Kedavra breaks the sould of the wizard who uses it? The closest to this idea is the whole idea of creating a Horcrux, however Avada Kedavra is not what matters, but the act of murder. If you use magic to fling a boulder on someones head that should suffice as a pre-requisite to create one.
I think it separates the soul from the body, that’s why you can see Sirius’s float into the veil in the department of mysteries. You don’t normally see that but because of the veil there it made it more obvious.
Nice theory. It does make sense. What doesn't make sense is that there is no barrier spell to counter it, surely there should be a spell that is powerful enough to counter it.
@@SilentHotdog28 the way I see it no one wants to volunteer as tribute to see if they cast a spell if it will work….way too many people would die in the process. First they would have craft a spell they think would work. But they can’t even practice it because Avarda Kadarva will one shot them. You don’t gain exp when your dead. So now you need a new tribute. This is incredibly problematic. So if anyone comes up with a counter curse for it I would be incredibly suspicious of it.
I’ve always thought it was the soul effected also. But could it be electricity? If Avada Kedavra stopped all electrical activity in the body at once, it would be instantaneous. The brain runs on electricity, the heart, everything. There would be no signs or damage, just instant ceasing of all activity. Edit: I think the fear on the face is just knowing that spell is coming at you, just hearing a wizard start to utter that spell is going to put fear on your face. Also, I think the reason there’s so little known about the spell is because no one wants to be seen studying the dark arts, especially that spell. It would be taboo to spend the time understanding that spell.
@darkracer1252 I don't think it is an electric spell. To stop the body from being conductive doesn't make the spell electric. But since you asked: Baubillious is classified as an electric spell. Also, when Voldemort stole the elder wand from the grave of Dumbledore, he shoots a large jet of bright crackling electricity into the sky. Like lightning. This is similar to a spell used by Gellert Grindelwald during his duel against Newt Scamander in 1926.
Here is another idea: Maybe the spell cuts off all electrical impulses to and from the brain. This would instantly kill anyone, without changing facial features and would be near impossible to determine via autopsy as the spell would not physically damage the brain. Almost like grounding a live current.
thats not true, there would definitely be changes on the brain, in fact, every death posible leaves a trace that can be identified by a pathologist, shutting off all electrical activity makes all organs die in a short span of time as the heart wouldnt be pumping any blood. And the autopsy would reaveal signs of hypoxia, and ischemia, not only on the brain; but on the wohle body, ofcourse there would be any evidence of an underlying disease process. JKR just has no knowledge on medicine so what she wrote as the report of an autopsy is very very dumb, and imposible. The only thing i can think of is that the spell leaves you in a coma/vegetative state, where all your organs still work but youre brain dead. Which is being dead, as it is irreversible.
Interesting take. While the idea of death himself taking souls out of people fits harry potter more, i feel like this is a very realistic and underrated idea.
Ok, so this is funny. I had this discussion with my wife and kids. I had the same theory and made a similar connection with horcruxes and Dementors. With Dementors, the soul is slowly pulled free, causing some agony in it's process and leaving parts still attached to the body, but Avada Kadavra snaps the soul from the body like a rubber band, causing the shock and terrified reactions. I also made the realization that the curse actually tears the souls from the body and holds them within the wand, which is why when Harry's wand and Voldemort's connected, Echoes of the deceased were temporarily pulled from the wand. And they weren't simply echoes of souls, but the actual souls, as they could communicate and interact almost like a ghost could.
The spell is OP. 1 hit KO. This is a really good theory. Also it’s possible to tell by autopsy what a person died from heart attack etc… the fact none that could attributed to the riddles death at least confirms that it’s something else.
Maybe it just stops the bodily functions outright, like turning the key on a car just stops its immediately. I dont like the idea of a heart attack because that implies the heart was being overworked at the time of death.
The Department of Mystery probably has the record for this sort of research as well as on the other magical continent. This would be an interesting story arc for Harry Potter to explore.
Because the killing curse directly summons death to take one’s soul, whereas burning someone to death allows death to come naturally. Since the act of directly summoning death is seen as unnatural and evil the spell is forbidden
Also, normally you would be capable of counter those spells, the killing curse can't be stopped (except by dodging or putting an obstacle inbetween caster and target)
@@bluestingray8955 let's imagine that a person is in a situation when they're forced to kill (facing a foe so powerfull it's the only way of defeating them etc.) Wouldn't it be morally better to give them a quick and easy death (even if it means directly summoning death) than prolonging it making them suffer? My reasoning is that it would be.
I don't think this is true. While explaining a dementor's kiss to Harry in book 3, Remus says that once the dementors suck the soul out of someone the person doesn't die. As long as the brain and heart are functioning then the person cannot be dead. This explanation is equating the killing curse to a dementor's kiss and it doesn't add up.
Don't forget when Harry resurrects in Deathly hallows, he felt a little pain in the chest right there where the curse hit him. But your theory is pretty nice, como siempre. Buen trabajo c: excuse my English
About this, in the book Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, “mad-eye moody” says that” if you would all point your wands at me and say the incantation, it would at most give me a nosebleed.” That might change things a bit Ps: I have read the Harry Potter 6 times lol
I think that goes into having to mean it when you cast it. Whatever this rushing thing that takes a person soul is must be as powerful as the caster, so if you cast it weakly, this force just won’t take it at all.
I think it’s more about the intention, or so I heard, if you truly mean to use the spell to it’s full effect it will follow, however if you don’t truly mean it end that person life then it will harm not kill, Voldamort wasn’t able to feel some emotions thus he didn’t care about who he used the spell on, however for moody it when he said the class could all cast it on him and it’d just give him a nose bleed it’s because he knew no one in the class had the intent to properly use it on him
The connection between the soul removal by a dementor and Avada Kedavra is very interesting idea and I think you are right, for the most part. I still think that a dementor removes a soul completely but where Avada Kedavra rips the soul out of the body in such a violent way it does cause the organs to immediate shut down (Not like a heart attack or something, more like pushing the off-switch), a dementor is far more cruel and "carefully" detaches the soul from the body with almost a surgical precision, making sure that victim's body can live on as a husk. You could say that a dementor seperates the soul from the body with a "scalpel", while Avada Kedavra cuts it out like a "hunting knife". The damage it does to the organs isn't physical in nature but something else, something more mystical than can't yet be determined exactly. Though it seems to leave some magical traces as the ministry immediately knew the Riddles were murdered through magical means... And something I just realize but perhaps Avada Kedavra is the opposite of a basilisk gaze. We know from Myrtle Warren that when a basilisk looks at you (and uses its gaze), your body stops working, everything shuts down instantly and after that her soul left her body. With Avada Kedavra it could be the opposite, the soul is removed first, after which everything shuts down.
Well In my opinion, it rips the soul out of the body, for example, when Voldemort cast the curse on Harry, but having the spell rebound because of Lily's protection, ripped Voldemorts soul out of his body, but because Voldy made horcruxes, he wasn't completely destroyed only turned into his weakest form,
@@B1SQ1T They would still die, though it would be a bit different if this theory would happen to be correct. While there is no longer a soul to suck out, it would still cause some mystical damage to the organs, causing them to shut down. To go back to the scalpel/hunting knife analogy, it would retrace the scars of the Dementor's kiss caused on the mystical plane of the body and reopen the wounds only now causing irreparable damage.
My theory is that avada kedavra actually is Death itself. Like, when someone casts the spell against you, you see directly Death, therefore something that mortal beings (both muggles and wizards) cannot truly understand. So, when you're hit by an avada kedavra for me is like to see the unknown, in a semi-lovecraftian way
This takes me so far back, to when I was younger, and the first couple of books were just written, and I was so immersed into the universe, that I felt like it was all real! This channel does a great service to me, bringing me back to memories that I relish, and Harry Potter and JK Rowling, had much to do with that at points in my life! Ahh, the memories..
Avada Kedavra is an Aramaic phrase that means "I will destroy as I speak." JKR has said that it is to destroy a thing... That thing originally being illness, but she twisted it to mean the thing as a person. I always thought when I heard it that it sounded too similar to Abra Kedabra which is mockingly used by magicians. And the fact that Kedavra is similar to Cadaver (the body of a dead person) would suggest that it turns them into this
@@BehindYou1231 yes... But its also used to mock old magicians now and every cheesy magical act did it back when JKR was a kid. It could have literally been any phrase or made up word but she picked that
@@BehindYou1231 It means "Let the thing be destroyed". Avada was aramaic hebrew for "become", and kedavra resembling "kadaver" would mean "become a corpse". That checks out.
If only there was a citation of somebody who has survived the killing curse... Somebody who wasn't a baby when it happened and told his death eaters of how his soul was ripped out of his body, leaving him to be less than the meanest ghost. Sure would be helpful for the analysis of this spell, wouldn't it?
@@nzoththecorruptor2230 not really it rips the soul out as the other option it gives the very concept of death and applies it to you meaning horcuxes would be useless
Well, Voldemort did create an extra Horcrux by accident (Harry) when he tried to kill Harry. So he was likely the only one who knew what the Avada Kedavara curse felt like.
Am I just insane, or does a curse that kills people painlessly and quickly not seem that bad? Snape and the Longbottoms fate seem way worse. There are many things far worse than death, especially if you get creative.
True, there are situations when killing is necessary and justified, and this curse is the most humane way to do this. It is seemingly better in the Wizarding World to burn someone to death, than to end him fast and painless.
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I really like the fanfiction theory that the killing curse is essentially a targeted overpowered obliviation spell that erases the bodies memory of how it functions in such a way that it instantly force all body parts to stop working together.
Remember when Voldemort’s curse and Harry’s Expelliarmus connect. There were souls/ghosts of people Voldemort killed coming out of his wand. Maybe when you perform a killing curse the soul of your victim get pulled and trapped into the killer’s wand, or at least an echo of the soul is left in the wand.
@@alexlarson5910 if i remember correctly its described as more of a shadow so not really ghosts shadows. I always thought that some kind of memory is imprinted on rhe wand
I think the best explanation for how avada Kedavra functions is tied to priori incantatem during the duel between Harry and Vodemort. It is said that Priori Incantatem makes the wands cast the spells that were casted with those wands in reverse and during this process a few shadows appear of people who were killed by Voldemort. So if reversing the spell makes shadows or soul like imprits of people killed by the curse appear, the curse itself maybe literally erases the ghost from the body and from everywhere gaining some kind of imprint which can be projected outwards during priori incantatem.
i definitely think this line of reasoning should cast doubt on this reasoning from the video. 2 major points to consider 1) The Priori Incantatem appears to should that some element of the soul appears to be pulled into the wand. In effect a pattern of the person and their life experience 2) To make a horcrux, it appears that you have to kill. Why would this be, maybe because the act affects both the soul of the caster and the victim? We know the victim appears to lose at least part of their soul from the killing curse, and perhaps a little part of the casters soul can also become unstable enough to split off and be combined with the victims curse to bind it to an item. Lord Voldemort, I believe, had not been able to create any more horcruxes after attacking Harry (from what I understand Nagini was used with some peasant in Albania). We know from Triwizard Tournament, that all the souls he had previously killed, appeared during the dual, in fact it appears that's all Lord Voldemort had been casting recently. I could also speculate that perhaps you could simply use a nearby living vessel to create a horcrux (willing or forced). Nagini a faithful servant could have knowing agreed to become a horcrux, Harry most likely was too young know what was happening and allowed the small shard of Lord Voldemort's soul to attach itself to him. In fairness to us all, I have a suspicion that JKR didn't fully flesh this concept out, other than the parameters that the killing curse will kill you with no visible signs, and is uncounterable.
I remember a Harry Potter/Percy Jackson crossover fanfic I read once. It explained that the Killing Curse doesn't actually kill you. It just summons Thanatos, the God of Death. He kills you by grabbing your soul.
Uk what I always wondered what if a wizard and a god had a child would the attend hogwarts during the school year and camp half blood during the summer? Also the idea about thanatos is kinda cool
I just feel the need to point something out about that first excerpt that makes that makes it less than useful. Consider that the murder happened in the fifties and was in a rural area besides. It stands to reason that the autopsies didn't reveal much given the less sophisticated equipment and knowledge of the period. Also a police department out in the boonies isn't likely to have either the need or the resources to acquire all of the latest tech and techniques. I for one am curious as to what modern forensics would reveal about a case involving the avada curse.
i think the wand where the spell is casted on takes the soul in itszelf, becourse when voldemort and Harry fight at the end of part 4, the souls of harry his parents and Cedric come out of the wand
I always thought it just completely ripped the soul from the body, leaving a lifeless husk. So I'm in agreement. On another note, I always felt this was too easy of a spell to cast to kill someone. It should have some cost to the caster when they successfully land it. Otherwise, why would a dark wizard/witch ever cast any other spell at an enemy? Why would have Bella played around with Molly Weasley? Molly successfully blocked several spells during their duel, so clearly Bella wasn't using the killing curse there, given they can't usually be blocked.
The Killing curse needs alot of power behind it to actually work, and the caster's soul is literally damaged. I would believe any method of murder would do so, but casting the Killing curse is normally with the intent to kill.
i think that it summons the dead, why you ask well if you remember after Cedric died harry and Voldemort united their wands and Voldemort did say avada kadevra and then it showed that Cedric, his parent and everyone that died that were close to Harry showed up so it might be that Avada Kadevra summons the dead to take away your soul.
Okay so this popped in my head just now. What if a dementer kissed someone who had made a horcrux? Would that individual still experience the same effects as if they hadn’t split their soul? Would the horcrux have to be like retrieved and somehow that piece of soul returned to the makers body if that would save them?
Clearly yes to the first, and irrelevant to the 2nd, because Harry has had this happen to him in multiple movies and he acted the same way Sirius and Dudley did, and yet killing him once was all it took to remove the horcrux part of him
I’ve always found it interesting that Avada Kedavra is green. I feel like green has been associated a lot with corruption in games too. Maybe that corrupt aspect signifies a corrupt death, where it isn’t truly Death taking you but instead your soul ripped into the wand.
You can’t forget the basilisk either. One direct look will scare you to death. A glance from a reflection or through a translucent barrier will petrify you
Maybe avada kedavra just stops everything in the body at once, it like freezes everything so nothing can move or change, or maybe it stops everything at molecular stage
I've always wondered about this. and everyone I've asked hasn't given any satisfactory answer. This video by far provides the best take on the way Avada Kedavra works.
I think the frightened to death part is only because someone is obviously going to be scared if they've just heard some yell "Nevada Kedavra" at them and they are killed in that second, hence leaving them with their last expression
Since the victims of the Killing Curse can be identified through the wand used to kill them, I wonder if their souls are pulled through the wand, leaving a permanent unique etch, like the rifling on a gun. Maybe the action of literally tearing one person’s soul from their body creates a ripple effect that tears the user’s soul as well, not unlike tearing a muscle when you put too much strain on it. Over time, the soul mends itself, unless you use the wound to tear that part of your soul out into another vessel. Now I’m wondering: could there be a variant of Avada Kedavra that is used to force out a fragment of your soul to latch onto another object? This could help explain why Harry became a horcrux. If Voldemort’s soul was already unstable, then it’s possible the ritual may have completed without the proper setup. Could a soul become acclimated to the Killing Curse, like how a muscle can be strengthened through training, or how an alcoholic develops a tolerance that requires more alcohol to reach the same level of inebriation? If so, could it be possible that exponentially more murders will be needed for each additional horcrux, to a point?
This is something that bothered me for long time. I sticked with organs and soul but never decided about that. Now it makes sense. Of course muggles would recognise failure of organs and would know why Riddles died. So it was soul for me, but then, why would anybody die if dementors suck your soul and you would be still alive. Of course, husk of your former self, but still alive. And it all makes sense now. Dementors wouldn't suck all of your soul if they thrive on despair. I think this video is just extremely helpfull. But within all the praise I have doubtful question. Do you think dementors are inteligent enough to do that. Because I somewhat doubt inteligence of those creatures. Also, another question, do dementors have digestion system? As far as I know they don't need to eat, they just need cold, despair and depression. So don't you think they just suck all the soul from you, but you stay alive because they don't destroy it. Unlike avada kedavra, which would destroy your soul.
It's proven that Avada Kedavra doesn't destroy the soul, as Lily, James, Dumbledore and presumably others were killed with it and were present in limbo and on the other side. Also, organ failure only leaves an impression because it fails over time or the cause of its failure is still present. The Riddles weren't just brain dead with beating hearts and functioning organs, they were clinically, fully, decomposingly dead, it's just that everything stopped at once and the cause was dissipated or otherwise undetectable magic.
It can't just be that it takes your soul from your body, because it's been established that losing your soul doesn't kill you in the Harry Potter universe. The Dementor's Kiss steals your soul, but it doesn't kill you.
I think that the reason why a dementor doesn’t kill you is because it “takes” your soul, but it doesn’t go on. I believe that avada kedavra sends your soul straight to the afterlife, thus rendering you dead, as there’s nowhere in the physical world it could be.
@@martinmc0950 Yeah. So basically, Avada kedavra summons Death who takes your soul away from your body into limbo while dementors essentially eats your soul.
Sirius is not killed by the killing curse in the book, Bellatrix Lestrange's spell is red not green. 'Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix’s jet of red light: he was laughing at her. “Come on, you can do better than that!” he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room. The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock'
I think this is a good theory, it can also be backed by the battle scene in the goblet of fire. When Harry and Voldemort battle for the first time in the graveyard, their wands connect and ghosts start popping out of Voldemorts wand. So maybe the soul is taken by the wand?
Personally, I think its much more likely that it effects the brain. If it were to stop the functions of the brain, the victim would instantly die because, without the brain to send signals, your heart wont beat, your diaphragm wont flex, hell, your bowels wont even function. As for the fear, well, thats not that hard to figure out. Voldemort thrives on fear, he knows exactly how to inspire it and its not that hard to imagine how easy it would be for a talented Wizard like him to terrify the pants of a group of Muggles, even before he started killing them.
I think Avada Kedavra is a soul attack spell as all green magic has something to do with soul. Soul is weak but hard to access or attack so it requires green spell which is very specific to manipulate the soul. One is focused on soul control, one is focused on soul torture and one is soul kill. Makes sense in my mind.
I dont think dementors leave any soul in your body. Rather i think it is even simpler. Dementors have perfected a sort of surgical way of removing the soul, in such a way that the body remains alive. However, the avada kedavra curse, as you said, RIPS the soul out of the body. A violent, and uncontrolled procedure, that renders the body unable to continue life.
Good theory though if it summons the dead, a powerful necromancer should be able to block it. Maybe Lily did that. Yes, Dumbledore says love but Lily can't be the first mother to take a curse for her kid. I saw a theory once that the killing curse shuts down the brain including the automatic functions such as sending the signal to your heart and lungs. It is just a high powered memory charm which is why it leaves no mark. I wish the killing curse needed more so people like Crabbe couldn't use it. That would have made Voldemort more terrifying.
Actually the books already explain this but it seems you missed it. You are entirely wrong. As stated in the books, they say, "All curses have an effect on the user when they are used. When Voldemort used the horcruxes to severe his soul, in turn he cursed the defence against the dark arts class. When horcruxes are created, they curse that which someone is bound to. Since Voldemort wanted to become a defence against the dark arts teacher before he was evil, he in turn cursed it when he gave it up for power. The reason why the curses are 'unforgivable' is because when you use them, you tear a piece of your soul off to power them. That's why Avada Kadavra is green. It's the color of a twisted evil soul. When someone uses it, not only do they tear a piece of their soul off similar to how horcruxes are made but they also twist the soul into something demonic. The reason why Voldemort died when he used Avada on Harry is because he used the curse so much and had so little of his soul left to use for the curse that it backfired. Not only that, since there wasn't enough of his soul to tear away Harry's, instead his soul latched onto Harry. That is the rare risk of using the curse. This is further explained when the books say Neville long bottom could have been Harry if Voldemort instead went to use the killing curse on him. Voldemort didn't know that if he was to use the curse again, he would lose his humanity since it was hanging on by a single thread. The crucio curse is even worse which twists the soul into madness. That's why Beatrix is so unhinged but she wasn't always that way. She used to be a lot different until she overused the curse on Neville's parents. She became corrupt and twisted. This is why they are called the unforgivable curses. You cannot gain back your soul once you use them." The books explain this very well in the Goblet of Fire when the fake Mad Eyes explains them and further clarified in the Deathly Hallows. I've read the entire series like 7 times as a kid. I'm surprised how little people know about these things.
Yea playing hogwarts legacy I’m not sure how burning, blowing up, slicing, and slowing beating someone to death as a 15 year old student is “forgivable” yet one quick and painless spell to kill them would land me in Askaban
4:58 The dementors kiss is sucking out all of your happy memories, so just the happy part of your soul is left, and you are left tormented by experiencing only abject misery. This would make sense why they don’t die and are borderline catatonic as they’re entirely numb to everything around them from experiencing so much horror continually.
I think the curse does something related to the victim's soul. I was thinking about what happened when Harry's wand forced Voldemort's to show the spells it was used for. There Harry saw the people who got murdered by Voldemort in a soul like form. My point is that priori incantatem makes a wand to show the spells that it was used for. It shows a smaller version of the dark sign when they inspect Harry's wand after the Quidditch World Cup incident. I find it odd that it shows shades of the people who got killed instead of the spell itself when it was Voldemort's wand. My question is it was done so because Rowling needed to pull a miracle to save Harry's skin at the graveyard? Another question about this is what would we see if they used priori incantatem on a wand that cast The Imperius curse or any other spell that affects people but does not kill them?
Maybe it kills people by trapping their souls in the user’s wand that killed them because in the Goblet of Fire when Harry used expelliarmus against Voldemort's avracadavra (whatever the spell is)the souls of the people he had killed immersed from Voldermorts wand. So maybe it traps the soul of the person it is used on
Sirius is not killed by the killing curse in the book, Bellatrix Lestrange's spell is red not green. 'Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix’s jet of red light: he was laughing at her. “Come on, you can do better than that!” he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room. The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock'
I am sooo curious about the death chamber in the U.S congress. Why take so much work to take someone's memory put it in some kind of water and slowly have the darkness take over the person? Why not just use Avada Kedavra? It's quick and it doesn't take the space that the death chamber seems to require. Is it just so there isn't a person committing the murder using a dark spell? But even so, the executioner still is the one that commits the killing with the use of the death chamber. This really makes me wonder if using the unforgivable twists a person's mind through long-term usage. Or perhaps the mindset required to kill someone with Avada kedavra is so dark and evil that it takes a dark wizard to so? But we see Snape kill dumbledore with the spell, is he a dark wizard? I mean spells in the HP are honestly very difficult to categorize between the lines of dark and light.
When you mentioned the ‘vast, invisible something’ my thoughts were the spell strips the victim of their soul and the soul goes off into the afterlife. Many can’t see it because they are apart of the physical world. Kind of like ripping it out of the body forcefully causing the quick death. There is pain involved but it’s in an instant, their screams of pain covered by the green lighting and that’s why they look like they have a face of terror.
If you think about it, most spells are similar to actual words, eg. expelliarmus: expell arms, so what if avada kedavra means out of cadaver (cadaver means a body used for science and stuff)
I don't think the dementors curse just takes your soul and leaves a bit behind, I think it takes all the good parts in your soul. like memories kind of, which is why your happiest memory for your patronus slammed in their face stops them. the kiss leaves all the bad stuff, hence causing the suffering.
Why is it that avada kadavra is "illegal". However, in books and movies, they show other characters very clearly being killed by other spells that aren't the killing curse. Where does the line get drawn when you could use bombata to blow up your target or confringo or incendio to burn them to death. There are so many other spells that also when coming into direct contact with the target will kill them.
You know one thing I never understood about this spell is, victims of the spell claim it is painless and all they saw is a bright light. So a painless killing curse is unforgivable, but lighting your enemies on fire, drowning them, turning them into stone then shattering it, that's perfectly acceptable.
For all those people making bullshit about advada kavada summoning death and damaging the caster soul that is all billshit.There are 2 possible ways it works according to my understanding,first it is important to remember that the spell idea was created from a spell that originally was used to heal, the idea was it was cast on a person and it killed whatever was inside the person making them sick (illness).So the first way it could work would be that when it hits someone it stop all bodily functions(neurones,cellular division,enzymes synthesis,muscle contracts and relaxation ect) this would result in the body being perfectly fine but would kill the person instantly and if not instantly the person would perceived it as such because the can’t think due to brain activity stoping which eventually will kill the person, this is what I hope and believe is what is happening.The second way it could work is that the spell instantly and forcefully severs the connection between a persons body and soul thus killing them as a result.
Well I kills you, how, it kills the way it kills, no evidence that what made the dead die, I recall. Lol does this even makes sense. Ps your videos are amazing keep making them
Hey everyone, Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. For today’s video, I’m going to be discussing one of the unforgivable curses. More specifically, I’m going to be discussing the avada kedavra and its properties. We know avada kedavra as the killing curse - the staple spell of Lord Voldemort- and seemingly the go-to spell for dark witches and wizards intent on putting an end to their enemies. Avada kedavra is a truly sinister spell that is classed as ‘unforgivable’ by the ministry of magic along with ‘crucio’ aka the cruciatus curse, and ‘imperio’ aka the imperius curse. These three curses were classified as ‘unforgivable’ in the year 1717- when the ministry of magic determined that they were entirely unsuitable to be freely used in the wizarding world. At the same time, the ‘strictest penalties’ were put in place and attached to their use. Before 1717, we can only assume that they were regarded just like any other spell. And while we don’t have any information to support this, there must have been some sort of catalyst that made the ministry realize how truly dangerous these spells were. Ulick Gamp was the minister for magic at the time the spells were outlawed, with just one year left in his term. Perhaps something happened, involving these spells, that threatened his position. I can only imagine the chaos that something like the imperius curse would cause in a government structure like that. The most notorious of the unforgivable curses- Avada kedavra- has a simple purpose: it causes the victim to instantly die. If you want to kill your victim, then this is the spell to use. Upon uttering the incantation, the spell creates a blindingly intense green bolt of light- and the victim simply drops dead. However, one thing that is never properly explained is HOW avada kedavra actually kills people. Unlike many other spells, avada kedavra leaves no trace at all - they just die. So, my question is- HOW do they die? What’s going on? I’m going to start by taking a look at the chapter ‘The Riddle House’ from the Goblet of Fire- the chapter that examines the murder of the Riddle family in Little Hangleton. “The police had never read an odder report. A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated, or (as far as they could tell) harmed at all. In fact (the report continued, in a tone of unmistakable bewilderment), the Riddles all appeared to be in perfect health - apart from the fact that they were all dead. The doctors did note (as though determined to find something wrong with the bodies) that each of the Riddles had a look of terror upon his or her face - but as the frustrated police said, whoever heard of three people frightened to death?” What this excerpt confirms entirely is that the killing curse leaves no physical trace- the Riddle family were undoubtedly killed with avada kedavra- but they didn’t have so much as a scratch on them. They were just..dead- and it happened instantaneously. So-what is the process? What does the spell do? I know that some people have made the argument that the killing curse simply causes the organs of the victim to stop working. Stopping the functions of certain organs, particularly the heart-inducing a heart attack, would be a surefire way of killing someone. However, IF this were true, then their deaths would have been a little bit more drawn out. Whatever the killing curse does happens INSTANTLY- which is why the victims still have the ‘look of terror’ on their face described by the police. Though it wasn’t something that they could run with, the best way that police at the crime scene could describe their deaths was that they appeared to be ‘frightened’ to death- but of course in the muggle world, that isn’t possible. So if it isn’t physical- then avada kedavra must have more of an ethereal effect. The ‘Soul’ is a common theme in Harry Potter- we see it with Voldemort, and we see it with dementors. Leveraging his own soul, Voldemort tried to fragment it in order to achieve immortality- and it resulted in his horcruxes-pieces of his soul that he embedded in to different objects to stay alive.
Avada Kedavra could have destroyed someone's soul at the cost of a piece of your own. That would have made the spell a bit more interesting than just basically a magic gun
There are plenty of spells that can kill, I think the reason this one is unforgivable might be because it doesn’t just take away someone’s soul, but it outright destroys it. Certainly something pretty dark and sinister
@@DrRhyhm Dumbledore was also killed with the killing curse. If AK destroyed souls Dumbledore wouldn't have existed anymore, same for Harry's parents and possibly Sirius and Remus.
Why is it that Dumbledore is never described as having a terrified look on his face in death? Or did I miss it? Does that mean that if you get killed by the AK curse when you have no fear of death then it doesn’t cause the same effect? That look of fear? Annnnnd, if you close your eyes before someone AK’s you, do you just look like you are sleeping? Or do your eyes shoot open regardless?!
i think the look of fear described on the faces of the riddle family is simply due to being murdered and has nothing to do with how they are murdered. Which however means something way more interesting as normally after you die your muscles relax, meaning your mouth falls opens and your eyelids are no longer under tension causing your eyes to be open as well, as facial expression requires certain muscles to contract you cant really have an expression on your face after you die. And the stiffening of your muscles (rigor mortis) happens only after a few hours after death. So AK apparently causes instantaneous rigor mortis, or some other process by which your muscles dont relax after death. And depending on how much you want to read into the few lines of them appearing perfectly healthy, you might also include into that looking still alive and not pale, which is caused by blood draining out of your face and pooling at the lowest points of your body. So not only does AK freeze your muscles but also prevents your blood from moving after death, but also not changing as blood being solid would most likely have been noted in the report as that is way weirder than simply being dead.
@@MrrGNB thanks, that’s actually a great response. Today marked the 13th anniversary of my friend passing away from SADS and so watching this reminded me of her autopsy report. She was 22yo and in perfect health, they couldn’t find anything wrong with her and yet she was no longer alive. So maybe the AK curse is just that, stopping your heart and taking your soul at the same time. Death really is a mystery ey!
I like to think that when a wizard or with murders, they don't "split" the soul (this just reminds me of a loaf of bread, perfectly cut), but I think it makes more sense to consider it a FRACTURING of the soul, like a mirror. More murders = more fractures. A horcrux would take a fragment of that.
I thought the spell immediately rip your soul out off your body and send them immediately to the afterlife. Edit : If you searched for the meaning of 'Avada Kedavra', it means 'I will destroy as I speak' in Aramaic.
There are plenty of spells in HP that could kill. Why is avada kedavra unforgivable though? In my theory it just straight up destroys ones soul and denies them an afterlife - thus making the spell unforgivable. This theory can be contradicted with the scene where the Horcrux in Harry is killed and he sees his deceased loves ones, but this could also just be in his head. I really like the dark touch this theory adds to the franchise. Voldemort is more evil and feared than we thought, the death of Sirius, James, Lily etc. Is even more tragic and the pressure on Draco to kill Dumbledore is inflated as well.
Because you have to actually have it in your heart to end someone's life to use it if you use it and actually kill with it, you are dangerous and a problem for the ministry
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In the department of mysteries we have confirmed that the disarming spell is the only way to stop the killing curse. It's been proven that being expelled is much worse than dying.
haha good one
Those spells really ought to know their priorities.
Oh my god, I was reading this and thinking yeah, solid theory, it'd be hard to cast it without a wand and Harry's connection let him stop it with Expelliarmus and then you pulled back the curtain and I walked face first into the fucking joke, absolutely priceless.
@@anthonychurch1567 lol I read this in my head with the accent
I read this thinking it was serious, but then the joke came lol
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I think you're almost right. But I think Avada Kedavra doesn't summon the spirits of the dead, but Death itself (taking away the soul with it's black wings). That's why Avada Kedavra is a violation of the rules of nature (Death is supposed to come by itself, not summoned by a wizard). And that's why using Avada Kedavra breaks the soul of the wizard who use it.
And it makes a connection between the three brothers (who probably invented the three unforgivable curses) and their "encounter" with Death itself and the three Holows who are very probably tied to death.
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Why do you think Avada Kedavra breaks the sould of the wizard who uses it? The closest to this idea is the whole idea of creating a Horcrux, however Avada Kedavra is not what matters, but the act of murder. If you use magic to fling a boulder on someones head that should suffice as a pre-requisite to create one.
At first I thought the spell was “Abra Kadabra” LOL
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Rowling has said that's where she drew her inspiration from when creating the incantation for the killing curse.
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As voldermort would say
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True... maybe to be another substance to be his nose...
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I think it separates the soul from the body, that’s why you can see Sirius’s float into the veil in the department of mysteries. You don’t normally see that but because of the veil there it made it more obvious.
Nice theory. It does make sense. What doesn't make sense is that there is no barrier spell to counter it, surely there should be a spell that is powerful enough to counter it.
Sirius is not killed by the killing curse in the book
@@SilentHotdog28 the way I see it no one wants to volunteer as tribute to see if they cast a spell if it will work….way too many people would die in the process.
First they would have craft a spell they think would work. But they can’t even practice it because Avarda Kadarva will one shot them. You don’t gain exp when your dead. So now you need a new tribute. This is incredibly problematic.
So if anyone comes up with a counter curse for it I would be incredibly suspicious of it.
@@SilentHotdog28 well, there isn't sadly for the Harry Potter universe
yeah except Sirius wasn't killed by the killing curse. That was just a movie thing.
I’ve always thought it was the soul effected also.
But could it be electricity? If Avada Kedavra stopped all electrical activity in the body at once, it would be instantaneous. The brain runs on electricity, the heart, everything.
There would be no signs or damage, just instant ceasing of all activity.
Edit: I think the fear on the face is just knowing that spell is coming at you, just hearing a wizard start to utter that spell is going to put fear on your face.
Also, I think the reason there’s so little known about the spell is because no one wants to be seen studying the dark arts, especially that spell. It would be taboo to spend the time understanding that spell.
I suppose each person reacts differently, but still dies. Some were more instantaneous than others, whereas others linger for a minute and die.
name one electric spell in harry potter.
@darkracer1252 I don't think it is an electric spell. To stop the body from being conductive doesn't make the spell electric.
But since you asked:
Baubillious is classified as an electric spell.
Also, when Voldemort stole the elder wand from the grave of Dumbledore, he shoots a large jet of bright crackling electricity into the sky. Like lightning.
This is similar to a spell used by Gellert Grindelwald during his duel against Newt Scamander in 1926.
soul affected*
So Nikola Tesla was trying to invent Avada Kedavra.
Here is another idea:
Maybe the spell cuts off all electrical impulses to and from the brain. This would instantly kill anyone, without changing facial features and would be near impossible to determine via autopsy as the spell would not physically damage the brain. Almost like grounding a live current.
thats not true, there would definitely be changes on the brain, in fact, every death posible leaves a trace that can be identified by a pathologist, shutting off all electrical activity makes all organs die in a short span of time as the heart wouldnt be pumping any blood. And the autopsy would reaveal signs of hypoxia, and ischemia, not only on the brain; but on the wohle body, ofcourse there would be any evidence of an underlying disease process. JKR just has no knowledge on medicine so what she wrote as the report of an autopsy is very very dumb, and imposible. The only thing i can think of is that the spell leaves you in a coma/vegetative state, where all your organs still work but youre brain dead. Which is being dead, as it is irreversible.
Interesting take. While the idea of death himself taking souls out of people fits harry potter more, i feel like this is a very realistic and underrated idea.
If just target brain. Then why statue go boom.
Ok, so this is funny. I had this discussion with my wife and kids. I had the same theory and made a similar connection with horcruxes and Dementors. With Dementors, the soul is slowly pulled free, causing some agony in it's process and leaving parts still attached to the body, but Avada Kadavra snaps the soul from the body like a rubber band, causing the shock and terrified reactions. I also made the realization that the curse actually tears the souls from the body and holds them within the wand, which is why when Harry's wand and Voldemort's connected, Echoes of the deceased were temporarily pulled from the wand. And they weren't simply echoes of souls, but the actual souls, as they could communicate and interact almost like a ghost could.
It wasn’t voldemorts original wand though
@@futmelon525 in the graveyard in goblet of fire? Was that wormtails?
@@futmelon525 In the graveyard wormtail was holding Voldemort original wand
The spell is OP. 1 hit KO. This is a really good theory. Also it’s possible to tell by autopsy what a person died from heart attack etc… the fact none that could attributed to the riddles death at least confirms that it’s something else.
if only it was KO
KO would still be alive
@@darkracer1252 kill off lol
@@goose6619 yeah only that's not what KO means. so sorry but no.
Knocked Out. nothing more. nothing less.
Maybe it just stops the bodily functions outright, like turning the key on a car just stops its immediately.
I dont like the idea of a heart attack because that implies the heart was being overworked at the time of death.
@@jaybird0312
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it just kills the target. period.
seeing as you know. it's MAGIC.
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Now with thay theory,
Can wizards and witches use the resurrection stone to research about the afterlife?
The Department of Mystery probably has the record for this sort of research as well as on the other magical continent. This would be an interesting story arc for Harry Potter to explore.
Always amazes me how you can use spells that burn your enemies alive of explode them but straight up killing them is a no go
Because the killing curse directly summons death to take one’s soul, whereas burning someone to death allows death to come naturally. Since the act of directly summoning death is seen as unnatural and evil the spell is forbidden
@@bluestingray8955 But at the same time a quick death is more merciful
Also, normally you would be capable of counter those spells, the killing curse can't be stopped (except by dodging or putting an obstacle inbetween caster and target)
@@stampsu that’s not the point
@@bluestingray8955 let's imagine that a person is in a situation when they're forced to kill (facing a foe so powerfull it's the only way of defeating them etc.) Wouldn't it be morally better to give them a quick and easy death (even if it means directly summoning death) than prolonging it making them suffer? My reasoning is that it would be.
I’ve heard but never really understood. I think the idea of souls makes it even more dangerous.
I don't think this is true. While explaining a dementor's kiss to Harry in book 3, Remus says that once the dementors suck the soul out of someone the person doesn't die. As long as the brain and heart are functioning then the person cannot be dead. This explanation is equating the killing curse to a dementor's kiss and it doesn't add up.
Don't forget when Harry resurrects in Deathly hallows, he felt a little pain in the chest right there where the curse hit him. But your theory is pretty nice, como siempre. Buen trabajo c: excuse my English
it is not the first time being hit by a spell hurt someone physically where they hit them though
That may have just been the physical pain of Voldemort's horcrux dying inside him and then leaving his body
About this, in the book Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, “mad-eye moody” says that” if you would all point your wands at me and say the incantation, it would at most give me a nosebleed.” That might change things a bit
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May be it depends on the caster....like the expecto patronum spell
It probably depends on the skill and power of said caster, and the intentions of casting it. Which might change how we view Wormtail.
I think that goes into having to mean it when you cast it. Whatever this rushing thing that takes a person soul is must be as powerful as the caster, so if you cast it weakly, this force just won’t take it at all.
I think it’s more about the intention, or so I heard, if you truly mean to use the spell to it’s full effect it will follow, however if you don’t truly mean it end that person life then it will harm not kill, Voldamort wasn’t able to feel some emotions thus he didn’t care about who he used the spell on, however for moody it when he said the class could all cast it on him and it’d just give him a nose bleed it’s because he knew no one in the class had the intent to properly use it on him
@@unknowntraveler9576 all I am saying is that it might be a physical kind of thing if it would give a nosebleed.
The connection between the soul removal by a dementor and Avada Kedavra is very interesting idea and I think you are right, for the most part. I still think that a dementor removes a soul completely but where Avada Kedavra rips the soul out of the body in such a violent way it does cause the organs to immediate shut down (Not like a heart attack or something, more like pushing the off-switch), a dementor is far more cruel and "carefully" detaches the soul from the body with almost a surgical precision, making sure that victim's body can live on as a husk. You could say that a dementor seperates the soul from the body with a "scalpel", while Avada Kedavra cuts it out like a "hunting knife". The damage it does to the organs isn't physical in nature but something else, something more mystical than can't yet be determined exactly. Though it seems to leave some magical traces as the ministry immediately knew the Riddles were murdered through magical means...
And something I just realize but perhaps Avada Kedavra is the opposite of a basilisk gaze. We know from Myrtle Warren that when a basilisk looks at you (and uses its gaze), your body stops working, everything shuts down instantly and after that her soul left her body. With Avada Kedavra it could be the opposite, the soul is removed first, after which everything shuts down.
I think that it just instantly transport someone’s soul to limbo. Unlike a dementor where the soul remains on earth or is destroyed when consumed.
Well In my opinion, it rips the soul out of the body, for example, when Voldemort cast the curse on Harry, but having the spell rebound because of Lily's protection, ripped Voldemorts soul out of his body, but because Voldy made horcruxes, he wasn't completely destroyed only turned into his weakest form,
What would happen if somoene tried to avada kedavra someone who's already been kissed by a dementor?
@@B1SQ1T They would still die, though it would be a bit different if this theory would happen to be correct. While there is no longer a soul to suck out, it would still cause some mystical damage to the organs, causing them to shut down. To go back to the scalpel/hunting knife analogy, it would retrace the scars of the Dementor's kiss caused on the mystical plane of the body and reopen the wounds only now causing irreparable damage.
@@BjornV1994 Oo that does make sense
My theory is that avada kedavra actually is Death itself. Like, when someone casts the spell against you, you see directly Death, therefore something that mortal beings (both muggles and wizards) cannot truly understand. So, when you're hit by an avada kedavra for me is like to see the unknown, in a semi-lovecraftian way
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Avada Kedavra is an Aramaic phrase that means "I will destroy as I speak."
JKR has said that it is to destroy a thing... That thing originally being illness, but she twisted it to mean the thing as a person.
I always thought when I heard it that it sounded too similar to Abra Kedabra which is mockingly used by magicians.
And the fact that Kedavra is similar to Cadaver (the body of a dead person) would suggest that it turns them into this
Abracadabra means I will create life as i speak
@@BehindYou1231 yes... But its also used to mock old magicians now and every cheesy magical act did it back when JKR was a kid.
It could have literally been any phrase or made up word but she picked that
@@BehindYou1231 It means "Let the thing be destroyed".
Avada was aramaic hebrew for "become", and kedavra resembling "kadaver" would mean "become a corpse".
That checks out.
If only there was a citation of somebody who has survived the killing curse... Somebody who wasn't a baby when it happened and told his death eaters of how his soul was ripped out of his body, leaving him to be less than the meanest ghost. Sure would be helpful for the analysis of this spell, wouldn't it?
Voldemort's situation is different though, as he wasn't able to die at the moment when the spell backfired on him.
@@nzoththecorruptor2230 because of his Horcruxes
@@nzoththecorruptor2230 not really it rips the soul out as the other option it gives the very concept of death and applies it to you meaning horcuxes would be useless
Well, Voldemort did create an extra Horcrux by accident (Harry) when he tried to kill Harry. So he was likely the only one who knew what the Avada Kedavara curse felt like.
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@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM explain
Am I just insane, or does a curse that kills people painlessly and quickly not seem that bad? Snape and the Longbottoms fate seem way worse. There are many things far worse than death, especially if you get creative.
True, there are situations when killing is necessary and justified, and this curse is the most humane way to do this. It is seemingly better in the Wizarding World to burn someone to death, than to end him fast and painless.
@@timmerk7363 like they shouldve used this for Neville's parents or people in the magical hospital that are incurable.
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That theory about literally summoning the dead would explain why the spell is unblockeable besides the love/sacrifice charm
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I really like the fanfiction theory that the killing curse is essentially a targeted overpowered obliviation spell that erases the bodies memory of how it functions in such a way that it instantly force all body parts to stop working together.
So you basically forget how to live. Lol.
Remember when Voldemort’s curse and Harry’s Expelliarmus connect. There were souls/ghosts of people Voldemort killed coming out of his wand. Maybe when you perform a killing curse the soul of your victim get pulled and trapped into the killer’s wand, or at least an echo of the soul is left in the wand.
That is explained in the books, and it's called priori incantatem. It's because they have the same wand core so they connect when the spells clash
Priori incantatem makes the wand recast all past spells.but the summoning of the ghosts is unexplained l.
@@alexlarson5910 if i remember correctly its described as more of a shadow so not really ghosts shadows. I always thought that some kind of memory is imprinted on rhe wand
I think the best explanation for how avada Kedavra functions is tied to priori incantatem during the duel between Harry and Vodemort. It is said that Priori Incantatem makes the wands cast the spells that were casted with those wands in reverse and during this process a few shadows appear of people who were killed by Voldemort.
So if reversing the spell makes shadows or soul like imprits of people killed by the curse appear, the curse itself maybe literally erases the ghost from the body and from everywhere gaining some kind of imprint which can be projected outwards during priori incantatem.
i definitely think this line of reasoning should cast doubt on this reasoning from the video. 2 major points to consider
1) The Priori Incantatem appears to should that some element of the soul appears to be pulled into the wand. In effect a pattern of the person and their life experience
2) To make a horcrux, it appears that you have to kill. Why would this be, maybe because the act affects both the soul of the caster and the victim?
We know the victim appears to lose at least part of their soul from the killing curse, and perhaps a little part of the casters soul can also become unstable enough to split off and be combined with the victims curse to bind it to an item.
Lord Voldemort, I believe, had not been able to create any more horcruxes after attacking Harry (from what I understand Nagini was used with some peasant in Albania). We know from Triwizard Tournament, that all the souls he had previously killed, appeared during the dual, in fact it appears that's all Lord Voldemort had been casting recently. I could also speculate that perhaps you could simply use a nearby living vessel to create a horcrux (willing or forced). Nagini a faithful servant could have knowing agreed to become a horcrux, Harry most likely was too young know what was happening and allowed the small shard of Lord Voldemort's soul to attach itself to him.
In fairness to us all, I have a suspicion that JKR didn't fully flesh this concept out, other than the parameters that the killing curse will kill you with no visible signs, and is uncounterable.
I remember a Harry Potter/Percy Jackson crossover fanfic I read once. It explained that the Killing Curse doesn't actually kill you. It just summons Thanatos, the God of Death. He kills you by grabbing your soul.
Uk what I always wondered what if a wizard and a god had a child would the attend hogwarts during the school year and camp half blood during the summer? Also the idea about thanatos is kinda cool
@@B1SQ1T That'll be epic! Lol
Can you give a link to the fanfic?
I believe the Killing Curse is a spell from the School of Necromancy, along with the Imperius and the Cruciatus curses. It makes total sense.
The School of Necromancy?
I'm glad you asked. Necromancy is the dark art of summoning the Dead. So the Unforgivable Curses would fall under this topic.
@@marcusblacknell-andrews1783 Yes, but is this school an actual thing?
Only if you play Dungeons and Dragons
@@samtakhanna2497 it is in harry potter universe. Inferi and charme skeletons are some of the known forms it takes
I just feel the need to point something out about that first excerpt that makes that makes it less than useful. Consider that the murder happened in the fifties and was in a rural area besides. It stands to reason that the autopsies didn't reveal much given the less sophisticated equipment and knowledge of the period. Also a police department out in the boonies isn't likely to have either the need or the resources to acquire all of the latest tech and techniques. I for one am curious as to what modern forensics would reveal about a case involving the avada curse.
Cardiac arrest most likely.
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Stupefy is the only spell which can block killing curse.
The disarming charm is the only spell worse than the killing curse.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM I didn't say stupefy is a worse or dangerous charm but it can block killing curse
No.... Literally no spell can block it, you can only move solid objects in front of the beam.
@@Hawaii_Foxx-0 but Harry did during the battle of seven potters
i think the wand where the spell is casted on takes the soul in itszelf, becourse when voldemort and Harry fight at the end of part 4, the souls of harry his parents and Cedric come out of the wand
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Yes your too right.
I always thought it just completely ripped the soul from the body, leaving a lifeless husk. So I'm in agreement.
On another note, I always felt this was too easy of a spell to cast to kill someone. It should have some cost to the caster when they successfully land it. Otherwise, why would a dark wizard/witch ever cast any other spell at an enemy? Why would have Bella played around with Molly Weasley? Molly successfully blocked several spells during their duel, so clearly Bella wasn't using the killing curse there, given they can't usually be blocked.
The Killing curse needs alot of power behind it to actually work, and the caster's soul is literally damaged. I would believe any method of murder would do so, but casting the Killing curse is normally with the intent to kill.
Very detailed, as always. @HarryPotterTheory
i think that it summons the dead, why you ask well if you remember after Cedric died harry and Voldemort united their wands and Voldemort did say avada kadevra and then it showed that Cedric, his parent and everyone that died that were close to Harry showed up so it might be that Avada Kadevra summons the dead to take away your soul.
Okay so this popped in my head just now. What if a dementer kissed someone who had made a horcrux? Would that individual still experience the same effects as if they hadn’t split their soul? Would the horcrux have to be like retrieved and somehow that piece of soul returned to the makers body if that would save them?
Clearly yes to the first, and irrelevant to the 2nd, because Harry has had this happen to him in multiple movies and he acted the same way Sirius and Dudley did, and yet killing him once was all it took to remove the horcrux part of him
And you can cast it if you simply know the incantation?
Scary... no wonder there is a forbidden section.
I’ve always found it interesting that Avada Kedavra is green. I feel like green has been associated a lot with corruption in games too. Maybe that corrupt aspect signifies a corrupt death, where it isn’t truly Death taking you but instead your soul ripped into the wand.
Corruption is always associated with purple in games. Green usually is poison (or nature, but the latter one is obvious)
You can’t forget the basilisk either. One direct look will scare you to death. A glance from a reflection or through a translucent barrier will petrify you
Maybe avada kedavra just stops everything in the body at once, it like freezes everything so nothing can move or change, or maybe it stops everything at molecular stage
I agree with the video. I think the sould is ripped out from the body
I've always wondered about this. and everyone I've asked hasn't given any satisfactory answer. This video by far provides the best take on the way Avada Kedavra works.
Awesome video sir, can you make a video on how many shops are there in diagon alley and hogsmeade..
I think the frightened to death part is only because someone is obviously going to be scared if they've just heard some yell "Nevada Kedavra" at them and they are killed in that second, hence leaving them with their last expression
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Since the victims of the Killing Curse can be identified through the wand used to kill them, I wonder if their souls are pulled through the wand, leaving a permanent unique etch, like the rifling on a gun.
Maybe the action of literally tearing one person’s soul from their body creates a ripple effect that tears the user’s soul as well, not unlike tearing a muscle when you put too much strain on it. Over time, the soul mends itself, unless you use the wound to tear that part of your soul out into another vessel.
Now I’m wondering: could there be a variant of Avada Kedavra that is used to force out a fragment of your soul to latch onto another object? This could help explain why Harry became a horcrux. If Voldemort’s soul was already unstable, then it’s possible the ritual may have completed without the proper setup.
Could a soul become acclimated to the Killing Curse, like how a muscle can be strengthened through training, or how an alcoholic develops a tolerance that requires more alcohol to reach the same level of inebriation? If so, could it be possible that exponentially more murders will be needed for each additional horcrux, to a point?
This is something that bothered me for long time. I sticked with organs and soul but never decided about that. Now it makes sense. Of course muggles would recognise failure of organs and would know why Riddles died. So it was soul for me, but then, why would anybody die if dementors suck your soul and you would be still alive. Of course, husk of your former self, but still alive. And it all makes sense now. Dementors wouldn't suck all of your soul if they thrive on despair. I think this video is just extremely helpfull.
But within all the praise I have doubtful question.
Do you think dementors are inteligent enough to do that. Because I somewhat doubt inteligence of those creatures. Also, another question, do dementors have digestion system? As far as I know they don't need to eat, they just need cold, despair and depression. So don't you think they just suck all the soul from you, but you stay alive because they don't destroy it. Unlike avada kedavra, which would destroy your soul.
It's proven that Avada Kedavra doesn't destroy the soul, as Lily, James, Dumbledore and presumably others were killed with it and were present in limbo and on the other side. Also, organ failure only leaves an impression because it fails over time or the cause of its failure is still present. The Riddles weren't just brain dead with beating hearts and functioning organs, they were clinically, fully, decomposingly dead, it's just that everything stopped at once and the cause was dissipated or otherwise undetectable magic.
I believe Avada Kedavra strips the soul from the body, but doesn’t destroy it. The dementors were purported to feed on happy memories.
It can't just be that it takes your soul from your body, because it's been established that losing your soul doesn't kill you in the Harry Potter universe. The Dementor's Kiss steals your soul, but it doesn't kill you.
I think that the reason why a dementor doesn’t kill you is because it “takes” your soul, but it doesn’t go on. I believe that avada kedavra sends your soul straight to the afterlife, thus rendering you dead, as there’s nowhere in the physical world it could be.
@@martinmc0950 Yeah. So basically, Avada kedavra summons Death who takes your soul away from your body into limbo while dementors essentially eats your soul.
What If you speak Out Avada Kedavra (or any damaging spell) while pointing at nothing like up in the air or at the concrete floor?
This makes sense especially with the death of Sirius Black.
Sirius is not killed by the killing curse in the book, Bellatrix Lestrange's spell is red not green.
'Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck
Bellatrix’s jet of red light: he was laughing at her.
“Come on, you can do better than that!” he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.
The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest.
The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock'
I think this is a good theory, it can also be backed by the battle scene in the goblet of fire. When Harry and Voldemort battle for the first time in the graveyard, their wands connect and ghosts start popping out of Voldemorts wand. So maybe the soul is taken by the wand?
Personally, I think its much more likely that it effects the brain. If it were to stop the functions of the brain, the victim would instantly die because, without the brain to send signals, your heart wont beat, your diaphragm wont flex, hell, your bowels wont even function. As for the fear, well, thats not that hard to figure out. Voldemort thrives on fear, he knows exactly how to inspire it and its not that hard to imagine how easy it would be for a talented Wizard like him to terrify the pants of a group of Muggles, even before he started killing them.
I find it interesting how one can use their own spells to combat that killing curse like how herry does.
Who created the Avada Kedavra curse? That’s something I’ve always wonder?
When I heard about the cruse in book 4, (Goblet of Fire) I thought it takes away your soul. Or just chokes you and you die of suffocation
I think Avada Kedavra is a soul attack spell as all green magic has something to do with soul. Soul is weak but hard to access or attack so it requires green spell which is very specific to manipulate the soul. One is focused on soul control, one is focused on soul torture and one is soul kill. Makes sense in my mind.
Now this is a relatively interesting topic...!
I dont think dementors leave any soul in your body. Rather i think it is even simpler. Dementors have perfected a sort of surgical way of removing the soul, in such a way that the body remains alive. However, the avada kedavra curse, as you said, RIPS the soul out of the body. A violent, and uncontrolled procedure, that renders the body unable to continue life.
Good theory though if it summons the dead, a powerful necromancer should be able to block it. Maybe Lily did that. Yes, Dumbledore says love but Lily can't be the first mother to take a curse for her kid. I saw a theory once that the killing curse shuts down the brain including the automatic functions such as sending the signal to your heart and lungs. It is just a high powered memory charm which is why it leaves no mark. I wish the killing curse needed more so people like Crabbe couldn't use it. That would have made Voldemort more terrifying.
Actually the books already explain this but it seems you missed it. You are entirely wrong. As stated in the books, they say, "All curses have an effect on the user when they are used. When Voldemort used the horcruxes to severe his soul, in turn he cursed the defence against the dark arts class. When horcruxes are created, they curse that which someone is bound to. Since Voldemort wanted to become a defence against the dark arts teacher before he was evil, he in turn cursed it when he gave it up for power. The reason why the curses are 'unforgivable' is because when you use them, you tear a piece of your soul off to power them. That's why Avada Kadavra is green. It's the color of a twisted evil soul. When someone uses it, not only do they tear a piece of their soul off similar to how horcruxes are made but they also twist the soul into something demonic. The reason why Voldemort died when he used Avada on Harry is because he used the curse so much and had so little of his soul left to use for the curse that it backfired. Not only that, since there wasn't enough of his soul to tear away Harry's, instead his soul latched onto Harry. That is the rare risk of using the curse. This is further explained when the books say Neville long bottom could have been Harry if Voldemort instead went to use the killing curse on him. Voldemort didn't know that if he was to use the curse again, he would lose his humanity since it was hanging on by a single thread. The crucio curse is even worse which twists the soul into madness. That's why Beatrix is so unhinged but she wasn't always that way. She used to be a lot different until she overused the curse on Neville's parents. She became corrupt and twisted. This is why they are called the unforgivable curses. You cannot gain back your soul once you use them." The books explain this very well in the Goblet of Fire when the fake Mad Eyes explains them and further clarified in the Deathly Hallows. I've read the entire series like 7 times as a kid. I'm surprised how little people know about these things.
This was exactly how I thought the curse worked, which makes me think I have seen this video before and this is where I got the idea.
Yea playing hogwarts legacy I’m not sure how burning, blowing up, slicing, and slowing beating someone to death as a 15 year old student is “forgivable” yet one quick and painless spell to kill them would land me in Askaban
I always assumed the killing curse just yeeted your soul out of your body.
4:58 The dementors kiss is sucking out all of your happy memories, so just the happy part of your soul is left, and you are left tormented by experiencing only abject misery. This would make sense why they don’t die and are borderline catatonic as they’re entirely numb to everything around them from experiencing so much horror continually.
Or more accurately, they’re left with only eternal dread as opposed to misery.
I think the curse does something related to the victim's soul. I was thinking about what happened when Harry's wand forced Voldemort's to show the spells it was used for. There Harry saw the people who got murdered by Voldemort in a soul like form. My point is that priori incantatem makes a wand to show the spells that it was used for. It shows a smaller version of the dark sign when they inspect Harry's wand after the Quidditch World Cup incident. I find it odd that it shows shades of the people who got killed instead of the spell itself when it was Voldemort's wand. My question is it was done so because Rowling needed to pull a miracle to save Harry's skin at the graveyard? Another question about this is what would we see if they used priori incantatem on a wand that cast The Imperius curse or any other spell that affects people but does not kill them?
I agree as the priori incantatem in the graveyard did not reveal the cruciatus curse used by Voldemort on Harry moments before
@@prabhjot1986able Yeah i actually forgot about that.
Maybe it kills people by trapping their souls in the user’s wand that killed them because in the Goblet of Fire when Harry used expelliarmus against Voldemort's avracadavra (whatever the spell is)the souls of the people he had killed immersed from Voldermorts wand. So maybe it traps the soul of the person it is used on
I think the best scene explaining the Avada Kedavra curse was the one when Bellatrix Lestrange killed Sirius Black.
Sirius is not killed by the killing curse in the book, Bellatrix Lestrange's spell is red not green.
'Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck
Bellatrix’s jet of red light: he was laughing at her.
“Come on, you can do better than that!” he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.
The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest.
The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock'
I am sooo curious about the death chamber in the U.S congress. Why take so much work to take someone's memory put it in some kind of water and slowly have the darkness take over the person? Why not just use Avada Kedavra? It's quick and it doesn't take the space that the death chamber seems to require. Is it just so there isn't a person committing the murder using a dark spell? But even so, the executioner still is the one that commits the killing with the use of the death chamber.
This really makes me wonder if using the unforgivable twists a person's mind through long-term usage. Or perhaps the mindset required to kill someone with Avada kedavra is so dark and evil that it takes a dark wizard to so? But we see Snape kill dumbledore with the spell, is he a dark wizard? I mean spells in the HP are honestly very difficult to categorize between the lines of dark and light.
When you mentioned the ‘vast, invisible something’ my thoughts were the spell strips the victim of their soul and the soul goes off into the afterlife. Many can’t see it because they are apart of the physical world. Kind of like ripping it out of the body forcefully causing the quick death. There is pain involved but it’s in an instant, their screams of pain covered by the green lighting and that’s why they look like they have a face of terror.
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I always tought it was heart attack
If you think about it, most spells are similar to actual words, eg. expelliarmus: expell arms, so what if avada kedavra means out of cadaver (cadaver means a body used for science and stuff)
I don't think the dementors curse just takes your soul and leaves a bit behind, I think it takes all the good parts in your soul. like memories kind of, which is why your happiest memory for your patronus slammed in their face stops them. the kiss leaves all the bad stuff, hence causing the suffering.
Why is it that avada kadavra is "illegal". However, in books and movies, they show other characters very clearly being killed by other spells that aren't the killing curse. Where does the line get drawn when you could use bombata to blow up your target or confringo or incendio to burn them to death. There are so many other spells that also when coming into direct contact with the target will kill them.
Good explanation, I think it does remove the soul like when Sirius was killed, his soul floated away.
Sirius is not killed by the killing curse in the book
Sirius accidentally stepped into the veil. He wasn’t killed by the killing curse.
You know one thing I never understood about this spell is, victims of the spell claim it is painless and all they saw is a bright light. So a painless killing curse is unforgivable, but lighting your enemies on fire, drowning them, turning them into stone then shattering it, that's perfectly acceptable.
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For all those people making bullshit about advada kavada summoning death and damaging the caster soul that is all billshit.There are 2 possible ways it works according to my understanding,first it is important to remember that the spell idea was created from a spell that originally was used to heal, the idea was it was cast on a person and it killed whatever was inside the person making them sick (illness).So the first way it could work would be that when it hits someone it stop all bodily functions(neurones,cellular division,enzymes synthesis,muscle contracts and relaxation ect) this would result in the body being perfectly fine but would kill the person instantly and if not instantly the person would perceived it as such because the can’t think due to brain activity stoping which eventually will kill the person, this is what I hope and believe is what is happening.The second way it could work is that the spell instantly and forcefully severs the connection between a persons body and soul thus killing them as a result.
I love the theory that spirits come and strip you away! I've never really thought of it like that but it explains a lot about the spell actually
Nah, you just die. All of your cells just die. Those people who died with frightened looks on their faces were scared of the curse itself.
Well I kills you, how, it kills the way it kills, no evidence that what made the dead die, I recall. Lol does this even makes sense.
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Hey everyone,
Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. For today’s video, I’m going to be discussing one of the unforgivable curses. More specifically, I’m going to be discussing the avada kedavra and its properties. We know avada kedavra as the killing curse - the staple spell of Lord Voldemort- and seemingly the go-to spell for dark witches and wizards intent on putting an end to their enemies.
Avada kedavra is a truly sinister spell that is classed as ‘unforgivable’ by the ministry of magic along with ‘crucio’ aka the cruciatus curse, and ‘imperio’ aka the imperius curse. These three curses were classified as ‘unforgivable’ in the year 1717- when the ministry of magic determined that they were entirely unsuitable to be freely used in the wizarding world. At the same time, the ‘strictest penalties’ were put in place and attached to their use. Before 1717, we can only assume that they were regarded just like any other spell. And while we don’t have any information to support this, there must have been some sort of catalyst that made the ministry realize how truly dangerous these spells were. Ulick Gamp was the minister for magic at the time the spells were outlawed, with just one year left in his term. Perhaps something happened, involving these spells, that threatened his position. I can only imagine the chaos that something like the imperius curse would cause in a government structure like that.
The most notorious of the unforgivable curses- Avada kedavra- has a simple purpose: it causes the victim to instantly die. If you want to kill your victim, then this is the spell to use. Upon uttering the incantation, the spell creates a blindingly intense green bolt of light- and the victim simply drops dead. However, one thing that is never properly explained is HOW avada kedavra actually kills people. Unlike many other spells, avada kedavra leaves no trace at all - they just die. So, my question is- HOW do they die? What’s going on?
I’m going to start by taking a look at the chapter ‘The Riddle House’ from the Goblet of Fire- the chapter that examines the murder of the Riddle family in Little Hangleton.
“The police had never read an odder report. A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated, or (as far as they could tell) harmed at all. In fact (the report continued, in a tone of unmistakable bewilderment), the Riddles all appeared to be in perfect health - apart from the fact that they were all dead. The doctors did note (as though determined to find something wrong with the bodies) that each of the Riddles had a look of terror upon his or her face - but as the frustrated police said, whoever heard of three people frightened to death?”
What this excerpt confirms entirely is that the killing curse leaves no physical trace- the Riddle family were undoubtedly killed with avada kedavra- but they didn’t have so much as a scratch on them. They were just..dead- and it happened instantaneously. So-what is the process? What does the spell do?
I know that some people have made the argument that the killing curse simply causes the organs of the victim to stop working. Stopping the functions of certain organs, particularly the heart-inducing a heart attack, would be a surefire way of killing someone. However, IF this were true, then their deaths would have been a little bit more drawn out. Whatever the killing curse does happens INSTANTLY- which is why the victims still have the ‘look of terror’ on their face described by the police. Though it wasn’t something that they could run with, the best way that police at the crime scene could describe their deaths was that they appeared to be ‘frightened’ to death- but of course in the muggle world, that isn’t possible.
So if it isn’t physical- then avada kedavra must have more of an ethereal effect. The ‘Soul’ is a common theme in Harry Potter- we see it with Voldemort, and we see it with dementors. Leveraging his own soul, Voldemort tried to fragment it in order to achieve immortality- and it resulted in his horcruxes-pieces of his soul that he embedded in to different objects to stay alive.
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Avada Kedavra could have destroyed someone's soul at the cost of a piece of your own. That would have made the spell a bit more interesting than just basically a magic gun
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It seems as though Avada Kedavra just instantly wrenches the spirit out of the body. The end. ☠
There are plenty of spells that can kill, I think the reason this one is unforgivable might be because it doesn’t just take away someone’s soul, but it outright destroys it. Certainly something pretty dark and sinister
If it destroyed the soul, Dumbledore wouldn't have been waiting for Harry at the end of the series inside limbo.
@@chaosdisc It doey destroy it. But because Harry was a horcrux Voldemort destroyed his own soul before he could destroy Harry's.
@@DrRhyhm Dumbledore was also killed with the killing curse. If AK destroyed souls Dumbledore wouldn't have existed anymore, same for Harry's parents and possibly Sirius and Remus.
Why is it that Dumbledore is never described as having a terrified look on his face in death? Or did I miss it? Does that mean that if you get killed by the AK curse when you have no fear of death then it doesn’t cause the same effect? That look of fear? Annnnnd, if you close your eyes before someone AK’s you, do you just look like you are sleeping? Or do your eyes shoot open regardless?!
i think the look of fear described on the faces of the riddle family is simply due to being murdered and has nothing to do with how they are murdered. Which however means something way more interesting as normally after you die your muscles relax, meaning your mouth falls opens and your eyelids are no longer under tension causing your eyes to be open as well, as facial expression requires certain muscles to contract you cant really have an expression on your face after you die. And the stiffening of your muscles (rigor mortis) happens only after a few hours after death.
So AK apparently causes instantaneous rigor mortis, or some other process by which your muscles dont relax after death. And depending on how much you want to read into the few lines of them appearing perfectly healthy, you might also include into that looking still alive and not pale, which is caused by blood draining out of your face and pooling at the lowest points of your body. So not only does AK freeze your muscles but also prevents your blood from moving after death, but also not changing as blood being solid would most likely have been noted in the report as that is way weirder than simply being dead.
@@MrrGNB thanks, that’s actually a great response. Today marked the 13th anniversary of my friend passing away from SADS and so watching this reminded me of her autopsy report. She was 22yo and in perfect health, they couldn’t find anything wrong with her and yet she was no longer alive. So maybe the AK curse is just that, stopping your heart and taking your soul at the same time. Death really is a mystery ey!
I like to think that when a wizard or with murders, they don't "split" the soul (this just reminds me of a loaf of bread, perfectly cut), but I think it makes more sense to consider it a FRACTURING of the soul, like a mirror. More murders = more fractures. A horcrux would take a fragment of that.
I thought the spell immediately rip your soul out off your body and send them immediately to the afterlife.
Edit : If you searched for the meaning of 'Avada Kedavra', it means 'I will destroy as I speak' in Aramaic.
@Hyab Negash I got it from a website. Hold up, let me check again
There are plenty of spells in HP that could kill. Why is avada kedavra unforgivable though? In my theory it just straight up destroys ones soul and denies them an afterlife - thus making the spell unforgivable. This theory can be contradicted with the scene where the Horcrux in Harry is killed and he sees his deceased loves ones, but this could also just be in his head. I really like the dark touch this theory adds to the franchise. Voldemort is more evil and feared than we thought, the death of Sirius, James, Lily etc. Is even more tragic and the pressure on Draco to kill Dumbledore is inflated as well.
Because you have to actually have it in your heart to end someone's life to use it if you use it and actually kill with it, you are dangerous and a problem for the ministry
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Just to make everyone sad
"Severus... Please" "Avada Kedavra"
"Kill the spare." "Avada Kedavra" "NO CEDRIC"
Only things I could think of haven't read all the books or the movies I'm on Half-Blood Prince and just finished reading Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone
i think that instead of just removing the soul, avada kedavra also destroy the soul
It can’t, if it did then Harry would’ve never seen Lily or James when he used the Resurrection Stone
I mean if it makes your brain just stop instantly then that wouldnt be drawn out, right?
Stopping the function of the heart is not a heart attack, it is a cardiac arrest - death would be instantaneous.
I think Avada Kadavra knocks your soul out of your body then without your soul you die