@Marksman said:
And curses have been used on Hulk before and failed. The Crimson Bands of Cytorrak is a curse.
He can cast some curses. The Unforgiveable Curses, especially Avada Kedavra are out of his ability to cast properly. And he's mediocre at best. He never even graduated from Hogwarts.
He nearly killed Malfoy by using a spell on him on purpose, without actually knowing what it did. He didn't just "read it out loud". He pointed his wand at Draco and shouted it.
He can't Avada Kedavra though. He never has, and there's evidence that he can't. Even when he was bloodlusted in the books, after Sirius died, his Cruciatus Curse was weak, and it made Bellatrix laugh. He wanted to kill her then, but he couldn't even hurt her sufficiently.
Regardless, Hulk's a lot faster than Harry is, and therefore, wins via speedblitz.
The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak aren't a curse, and breaking them doesn't require durability. It requires strength (what Hulk uses), or the ability to circumvent its magical properties (like White Tiger did).
Harry can hardly be called mediocre. A large part of books three through five focused on the fact that a lot of the other students at Hogwarts, even the ones a couple of classes above Harry, lacked any real-world experience with magical defense while Harry himself was practically adept in comparison when it came to fighting off Dark threats and creatures, mostly thanks to someone or the other trying to kill him every year. Hence why he was the DA's elected teacher. He's not terrific, but he's not mediocre either.
Harry can use Unforgivable Curses. He had trouble with Crucio when he was 15. Two years later, he successfully used it on Amycus Carrow:
“It's not a case of what you'll permit, Minerva McGonagall. Your time's over. It's us what's in charge here now, and you'll back me up or you'll pay the price.”
And he spat in her face.
Harry pulled the Cloak off himself, raised his wand, and said, “You shouldn't have done that.”
As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “Crucio!”
The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain, and then, with a crunch and a shattering of glass, he smashed into the front of a bookcase and crumpled, insensible, to the floor.
“I see what Bellatrix meant,” said Harry, the blood thundering through his brain, “you need to really mean it.”
- Deathly Hallows, Chapter 29
And he also used Imperio without a problem during the raid on Gringotts:
Hermione stepped forward.
"Madam Lestrange!" said the goblin, evidently startled. "Dear me!" How--how may I help you today?"
"I wish to enter my vault," said Hermione.
The old goblin seemed to recoil a little. Harry glanced around. Not only was Travers hanging back, watching, but several other goblins had looked up from their work to stare at Hermione.
"You have . . . identification?" asked the goblin.
"Identification? I--I have never been asked for identification before!" said Hermione.
"They know!" whispered Griphook in Harry's ear, "They must have been warned there might be an imposter!"
"Your wand will do, madam," said the goblin. He held out a slightly trembling hand, and in a dreadful blast of realization Harry knew that the goblins of Gringotts were aware that Bellatrix's wand had been stolen.
"Act now, act now," whispered Griphook in Harry's ear, "the Imperious Curse!"
Harry raised the hawthorn wand beneath the cloak, pointed it at the old goblin, and whispered, for the first time in his life, "Imperio!"
A curious sensation shot down Harry's arm, a feeling of tingling, warmth that seemed to flow from his mind, down the sinews and veins connecting him to the wand and the curse it had just cast. The goblin took Bellatrix's wand, examined it closely, and then said, "Ah, you have had a new wand made, Madam Lestrange!"
"What?" said Hermione, "No, no, that's mine--"
"A new wand?" said Travers, approaching the counter again; still the goblins all around were watching. "But how could you have done, which wandmaker did you use?"
Harry acted without thinking. Pointing his wand at Travers, he muttered, "Imperio!" once more.
"Oh yes, I see," said Travers, looking down at Bellatrix's wand, "yes, very handsome. and is it working well? I always think wands require a little breaking in, don't you?"
Hermione looked utterly bewildered, but to Harry's enormous relief she accepted the bizarre turn of events without comment.
- Deathly Hallows, Chapter 26
Two out of three should be good enough to extrapolate that he can probably use the Killing Curse too, although it's debatable whether it will actually work against Hulk. And Hulk is indeed faster.
Log in to comment