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harry potter - Why was Fluffy a big deal when there was Killing Curse in existence?


Couldn't a dark wizard just use Avada Kedavra on Fluffy without knowing its secret sleeping stimulus?


Why was Fluffy a big deal to Dumbledore and Voldemort?



Answer



Magical creatures are shown to be resistant to various spells, curses, magic in general. We have basically 2 options when it comes to Fluffy:




  1. Fluffy is magically resistant to the killing curse





  2. Quirrell/Voldemort did not want to let people know that they had retrieved the stone.




Once the traps were set we can assume that people did not regularly walk through all the traps to double check as that would involve all of the teachers who laid traps to redo the traps, that instead they would look in see Fluffy was there and walk back out, however if Fluffy where to be dead, that's an instant giveaway that someone has broken in.


I'm more partial to number 1 because I believe we can assume a lot of the larger creatures are resistant to the killing curse. For example Giants are a legitimate threat when combating wizards, however if you could simply kill them with Avada Kedavra, they are actually just giant muggles and in essence worthless. Dragons are another creature I think we can safely assume as being killing curse resistant. (maybe not their eyes however)


Examples of magical creatures being resistant:




  1. While Hagrid was running from the death eaters in Half-blood Prince, we see him getting shot repeatedly by stunning spells and others and some bouncing off of him and others having no effect. They mention this being due to giant blood.





  2. Sirius specifically states in hp4 that Dragons are magic resistant, except for the eyes, (then he is cut off) otherwise he says he would have suggested what Krum did and shoot a curse into the dragon's eye.




  3. The blast ended skrewts, (I believe from book 4 as well) where shown to be HIGHLY magic resistant, (I believe the book mentions spells literally bouncing off) as the students had to use spells over and over again to subdue them when they were smaller to get them into cages. At the end of the book in the maze I believe (Harry?) encounters a fully grown skrewt and nothing he throws at it has any effect (essentially now completely magically immune).




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