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Old 07-28-2011, 01:53 PM   #132
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There was 7 AKs used in Deathly Hallows, and they were said by Crabbe, Draco, and Voldemort. Harry at one point talks about how he didn't even want to stun someone attacking him during the broom chase, because that would have caused that person to die just the same as if he did use AK.

As far as allegories go, there are quite a few more, that's just the first and most obvious to spring to mind.


Ah, I am perhaps misremembering AK with Crucio? I remember Harry using one of the Unforgivables on Bellatrix or am I just sadly mistaken?

Ah, wiki helps:

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Harry Potter attempted to cast the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix Lestrange, without success, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and attempted to do the same to Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, however, he not only successfully uses this curse on Amycus Carrow shortly before the Battle of Hogwarts, but earlier in the book also uses the Imperius Curse on Travers and Bogrod during the break-in at Gringotts.

There is no known incident in which Harry cast or attempted to cast the Killing Curse, even against Voldemort himself. Despite the use of the curses being said to carry an automatic life sentence in Azkaban, Harry was apparently not punished in any way for using them (although except for two times, they were legal as he cast them during the regime of Lord Voldemort, and as for the other two times, there are no known witnesses).


Nevertheless, it's practically impossible to find a work of literature that doesn't have "christian allegories" including in literature written before Christ's time period. Take that how you will.
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