Curse-To-Kill

Curse-to-kill - Foreword was a general concept in the theory of magical self-defence where a spell was cast against an enemy .
==History==
By 1926, the Magical Congress of the United States of America had enacted a "curse-to-kill" policy on magical creatures that were considered a security risk in regard to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.
During the height of the First Wizarding War in the 1970s, Bartemius Crouch Senior, then Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the British Ministry of Magic, authorised Aurors to kill Death Eaters rather than capture them, if need be, and the use of the Unforgivable Curses against suspects.
During the Battle for Hogwarts, Horace Slughorn pointed out to that the likelihood that the staff would be able to keep Lord Voldemort and his forces from breaking through the castle's defences were slim to none, and indirectly (and inadvertently) implied that protecting Harry Potter would make them a target, at which point Minerva McGonagall informed him that he was free to evacuate the school if he did not wish to fight, but warned him that if he did anything to oppose the resistance, the Hogwartians, she included, would duel to kill.
==Behind the scenes==
*"Curse-to-kill" is a play on the real world term "shoot to kill".
==Appearances==
* 
==Notes and references==