OOTP SPOILER - Spells used
Lizzie Mae Lilly
lizzy1933 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 18 03:54:57 UTC 2007
--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, CMeehan1@ wrote:
> >
> > Yes, Levicorpus was used in "Snape's Worst Memory" in the OotP
book,
> HOWEVER, Harry doesn't learn how to use it until HBP. Remember -
he
> uses it on Ron...
>
>
> Carol responds:
>
> Not to mention that it's "<nvbl>," so Harry didn't even know the
> incantation (though he'd seen the spell used on Teen!Severus and
> evidently by one of the DEs in GoF, who flipped a Levitated Muggle
> upside down) until he read it in the HBP's book. I really hope the
HBP
> screenwriter just forgets that it was included in the OoP film and
> goes by the (Potions) book. It will be really funny to see Ron
> suspended by his ankle.
>
> Carol, who thought that OoP (the film) was too short and choppy and
> hopes that HBP will be at least half an hour longer
>
I don't believe the spell is meant to be Levicorpus. The victim is
*not* held up by his ankle, he's prone whilst being levitated very
much like the Muggle magician's trick. Yates and Goldenberg *do*
know what Levicorpus looks like, they filmed SWM after all. ;-)
Lizzie
aka
Snape's Witch
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