Timeline for Could Avada Kedavra Be Used Legally Against Werewolves In Their Transformed State?
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| Dec 16, 2013 at 11:41 | answer | added | Arachno-Sapien | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 10:28 | comment | added | childcat15 | One question that could influence this: are you allowed to use Unforgivable Curses in self-defense, or is it illegal even if you will die if you don't use one? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 16:05 | answer | added | user19616 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 4, 2013 at 15:37 | vote | accept | Slytherincess | ||
| Dec 5, 2012 at 18:54 | answer | added | Saturn | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 10, 2012 at 19:25 | comment | added | Aifos | I'm assuming that Slytheriness just took the "99%" out of the air, but that is actually really close. An educated guess is that a werewolf would be human around 98,4% of the time (not taking in to account that England has shitty weather that would hide the moon a lot of nights). | |
| Nov 10, 2012 at 16:39 | comment | added | Slytherincess | @ForceFlow - That question is broached here and it's definitely a good question to consider. For purposes of this question, though, I want to stick to what we do know, not what we don't. We know that use of Avada Kedavra against a human being can result in a life sentence in Azkaban. I'm looking at the aspect of a werewolf being a human 99% of the time, but not human when transformed. Or is there some humanity in a werewolf? That's what I'm interested in. :) | |
| Nov 10, 2012 at 9:35 | comment | added | Force Flow | @Slytherincess Moody's statement doesn't actually place limitations of the conditions of usage of the curses. All that his statement essentially says is that if someone does X, then Y happens. It could be very well be that the curses are illegal against non-humans and/or animals as well. We've just never seen the law that states this. | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:38 | comment | added | Slytherincess | @NominSim -- According to Mad-Eye Moody, the law of the Unforgivables is limited to humans: ‘Now ... those three curses – Avada Kedavra, Imperius and Cruciatus – are known as the Unforgivable Curses. The use of any one of them on a fellow human being is enough to earn a life sentence in Azkaban.' Can you point me to where canon addresses the issue of the Unforgivables being illegal to use against goblins or any other non-human? I don't recall that offhand. :) | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 0:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/263806675994165249 | ||
| Oct 31, 2012 at 16:12 | comment | added | NominSim | A werewolf is a human transformed into a beast. At their core they are still human, so yes it would still be illegal. Additionally, we already had seen evidence that performing unforgivable curses was still illegal even against goblins, so apparently it is not limited to human beings. | |
| Oct 31, 2012 at 14:46 | comment | added | Mark Beadles | "The use of any one of them on a fellow human being is enough to earn a life sentence in Azkaban." It would be possible, and fully in accordance with how criminal justice often works, for the killing of a werewolf via Avada Kedavra to be illegal, but with a sentence less than life. "We couldn't pin the murder rap on him, but we got him for beastslaughter, reckless endangerment, and possession of an unregistered deadly spell." :) | |
| Oct 31, 2012 at 12:45 | history | asked | Slytherincess | CC BY-SA 3.0 |