Wanting to kill a specific person may be a requirement for fueling the spell, sure, but I don’t see why that necessarily entails everyone else being immune to what is essentially a profoundly lethal effect. Once a bullet is in the air, it doesn’t matter what motivated the firing of the gun.
The bit about nobody mentioning collateral damage sounds like an argument from silence. I’ll tentatively grant you the point about “no possible defense”, but to me it seems like Moody could well have been talking about deliberate, cold-blooded murder rather than all possible circumstances. I mean, by the time of the “no possible defense” line he’s already name-dropped the Monroe Act, which is nothing if not a big, fat exception.
Wanting to kill a specific person may be a requirement for fueling the spell, sure, but I don’t see why that necessarily entails everyone else being immune to what is essentially a profoundly lethal effect. Once a bullet is in the air, it doesn’t matter what motivated the firing of the gun.
The bit about nobody mentioning collateral damage sounds like an argument from silence. I’ll tentatively grant you the point about “no possible defense”, but to me it seems like Moody could well have been talking about deliberate, cold-blooded murder rather than all possible circumstances. I mean, by the time of the “no possible defense” line he’s already name-dropped the Monroe Act, which is nothing if not a big, fat exception.