When will the recount happen ? ???<| sep |> You ain ' t getting it . This isn ' t about justification . You can ' t cleverly finagle your mindset into a Killing Curse state . You need to want the other person dead , ONLY for the purpose of them being dead . Other reasons have no effect on your ability to cast the spell . You can ' t cast it out of fear , you can ' t justify it with logic even the fightflight response is insufficient to enable the Curse on its own . It has to be cold blooded murder . That is all the killing curse can do . If you couldn ' t kill someone in cold blood that is , for no reason and with no justifying context then you couldn ' t use the Killing Curse on them . That ' s why there is no excuse for it if you can cast it , you ' re definitely a murderer . You ' re the sort of person who could kill someone else for no reason other than to want them dead , and who has already done so .