15 Things That Almost Completely Changed The End Of Harry Potter

13. Voldemort's Other Curse...

What Happened

In his "final" confrontation with Harry Potter, Voldemort poetically gets his chance to kill The Boy Who Lived with the very same spell that rebounded off him as a scar. It doesn't fully work, because of the magic of Horcruxes and love, but the Dark Lord has no reason to suspect that it won't.

What Could Have Been

According to journalist and friend of JK Rowling, Greg Palast, the alternate ending that the author herself related to him, Voldemort was going to arm himself with a "special curse far more powerful and final than the Avada Kedavra which had failed to kill Harry as a child."

His solution was a spell called forth using “Oppugno Mortimbessios!”

That account suggests that Rowling had the Dark Lord draw the power of hundreds of Dementor kisses - which he had learned to harness and propel from his wand - and he wouldn't merely be killed. Grimly, he would have been "frozen in place, Harry’s living being encased for eternity at the moment of Harry’s ultimate humiliation and defeat, a terrifying monument to Voldemort’s victory for all to see for all time."

Now that would have been a far more gruesome scene than the Avada Kedavra we actually got.