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4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: Ron Weasley sits in front of a fireplace with a Gameboy Yellow with Pokémon Red in hand.

Ron: Harry, these muggle games are so fun!

Panel 2: Harry Potter sits across the fireplace from Ron and holds his wand and a Gameboy Red with the screen and wand pointing at Ron.

Potter: Ron, look! My Pokémon is evolving from Abra to Kadabra!

Panel 3: Harry is horrified as magic flies from his wand

Panel 4: Harry comes to the depressing realization of what he’s done.

  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t understand, did he just kill Ron with Abra Kadabra? Because that is very decidedly not the killing curse. The entire point is that it sounds similar, but those are clearly not the words.

    • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
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      1 day ago

      The point of Avada Kadavera is that muggles were so used to being killed out of hand by wizards that they associated the death curse with what would become the standard generic magic phrase.

      Anyways, intent clearly matters for the spell more than the exact words or accents (directly canonically confirmed btw, not just implied by the books), which is why wizards can master casting spells without using words at all and they don’t all have to pronounce spells the exact same way. This also implies that Abra Kadabra might well be simply how that spell is pronounced in different regions, since we also know that there’s not some ancient magic speech/true speech going on, wizards can both create new spells and the foreign wizards use different linguistic conceits for their spells

      This all clearly means Harry Potter wanted to murder Ron and not that it’s a silly comic making a silly joke.