You don’t think you can teach children how to want someone dead for the sake of wanting them dead? Children can be very hateful. (At least, this could be what Quirrell is thinking, and Dumbledore could be thinking or hoping that the children just aren’t going to be able to cast it.)
In canon, Moody used the unforgivables on a spider, and given the prevalence of ostensibly non-sentient things-to-fear in the magical world (e.g. boggarts), it’s conceivable that they could have found a particular magical creature that even the most PETA-supporting student would have no trouble excising from the world. Also, as far as I can tell, there’s nothing in canon to contradict that curses’ targets are limited to Kingdom Animalia (see also: Harry’s existential crisis about sentient plants), and I seriously doubt there are any 7th level vegans at Hogwarts.
Yeah, that kind of leaped out.
It also made me wonder how Quirrell and Dumbledore thought they were going to teach students the spell.
Killing Curses don’t kill wizards, wizards kill wizards!
You don’t think you can teach children how to want someone dead for the sake of wanting them dead? Children can be very hateful. (At least, this could be what Quirrell is thinking, and Dumbledore could be thinking or hoping that the children just aren’t going to be able to cast it.)
I’m very glad I didn’t know that spell when I was little.
In canon, Moody used the unforgivables on a spider, and given the prevalence of ostensibly non-sentient things-to-fear in the magical world (e.g. boggarts), it’s conceivable that they could have found a particular magical creature that even the most PETA-supporting student would have no trouble excising from the world. Also, as far as I can tell, there’s nothing in canon to contradict that curses’ targets are limited to Kingdom Animalia (see also: Harry’s existential crisis about sentient plants), and I seriously doubt there are any 7th level vegans at Hogwarts.
How do you level up in being vegan? And what powers does it grant?
It’s a reference to an episode of The Simpsons, wherein Lisa’s boyfriend states: “I’m a level 5 vegan. I won’t eat anything that casts a shadow.”
Edit2: Primary source found.