It's a combination of limited direct knowledge of the series (I've only read through book 4, with plot synopsis of the other 3), invalid assumption
(What happens when AK is improperly cast? The assumption I made is that there is the same green light, just without effect), and probably too much fanfiction
(I don't think I'm actually the one who came up with the idea truthfully) that informed my personal take on this. I did not mean to imply that it was
a canonical reason, though I see how it could have come across that way. Sorry 'bout that.
After thinking about it for a few hours, my logic has been going in circles and I'm poking holes in my own arguments. I suppose I just find it difficult
to believe that in who knows how many years of the AK being around, Harry is the only one to have ever survived. I can't maintain my suspension of
disbelief.
Fake-Moody's suggestion of a hangnail-causing AK probably contributed to my confusion, because if a student actually cast it and gave him a hangnail, he
could be said to have survived the AK - although it could also be said that the student didn't cast AK in the first place.
(What happens when AK is improperly cast? The assumption I made is that there is the same green light, just without effect), and probably too much fanfiction
(I don't think I'm actually the one who came up with the idea truthfully) that informed my personal take on this. I did not mean to imply that it was
a canonical reason, though I see how it could have come across that way. Sorry 'bout that.
After thinking about it for a few hours, my logic has been going in circles and I'm poking holes in my own arguments. I suppose I just find it difficult
to believe that in who knows how many years of the AK being around, Harry is the only one to have ever survived. I can't maintain my suspension of
disbelief.
Fake-Moody's suggestion of a hangnail-causing AK probably contributed to my confusion, because if a student actually cast it and gave him a hangnail, he
could be said to have survived the AK - although it could also be said that the student didn't cast AK in the first place.