the wand can cast a spell that just sort of kills you, no take-backsies or blocking it, and canonically you can cast that spell without speaking if you're good enough.
that's a gun lmao. and they hand them out to 12 year olds.
Technically the 12 year olds aren't capable of casting it, because it requires an unspecified amount of magical power to actually use. Moody (well, Marty Crouch in disguise) says that a whole class of 14 year old wizards could all try to cast it on him and it wouldn't do anything, and 16-year old Harry later tries to use the Torture spell but he only manages to cause momentary pain with it.
If I wanted to be charitable, I would say that the spells available to a wizard are reflective of their personality and outlook on the world - but since it's JKR and her writing's pretty simplistic it's just a case of "you have to be evil to use the evil magic".
the wand can cast a spell that just sort of kills you, no take-backsies or blocking it, and canonically you can cast that spell without speaking if you're good enough.
that's a gun lmao. and they hand them out to 12 year olds.
Technically the 12 year olds aren't capable of casting it, because it requires an unspecified amount of magical power to actually use. Moody (well, Marty Crouch in disguise) says that a whole class of 14 year old wizards could all try to cast it on him and it wouldn't do anything, and 16-year old Harry later tries to use the Torture spell but he only manages to cause momentary pain with it.
If I wanted to be charitable, I would say that the spells available to a wizard are reflective of their personality and outlook on the world - but since it's JKR and her writing's pretty simplistic it's just a case of "you have to be evil to use the evil magic".