Hmm. So Harry Potter Wikia seems to suggest that Avada is described as unblockable in canon, but what that seems to mean is that it isn’t blockable by a shield spell or anything like that. Harry didn’t exactly block it in canon; it hit him and he survived anyway because of the Power of Love. I’m updating mildly in the direction of Eliezer tweaking canon because he decided that the instances of Avada being blocked in canon were Rowling cheating.
Doesn’t everyone make a big deal about the Unblockable Curse being blocked by Harry in canon, too? Or is that just in HPMOR?
Hmm. So Harry Potter Wikia seems to suggest that Avada is described as unblockable in canon, but what that seems to mean is that it isn’t blockable by a shield spell or anything like that. Harry didn’t exactly block it in canon; it hit him and he survived anyway because of the Power of Love. I’m updating mildly in the direction of Eliezer tweaking canon because he decided that the instances of Avada being blocked in canon were Rowling cheating.
Oog, now I’m semantically satiated on “block.”