Sinistra and PI

[Firebolt]

No: HPFGUIDX 12511

Kelley wrote:

> > Finally - thinking of a role for Eddie Izzard in the film - there
> is only one part for him....the sexually ambiguous Professor Sinistra.
> >
> > Neil
>
> LOL!  Oh, he'd be beautiful, wouldn't he?  :sigh:  And don't you just
> know, we'll never even see Sinistra; perhaps he/she will make a cameo
> at the end of year feast in #7.....

Sorry, guys, take a look at chapter 23 of GoF (The Yule Ball): 'Mad-Eye Moody was doing an extremely ungainly two-step with Professor Sinistra, who was nervously avoiding his wooden
leg.'

Catlady wrote:

> Meghan wrote:
>   > And for some reason I thought you had to have an exact twin core
>   > to do [Priori Incantatem] in the first place? O.o
>
>   No. When wands that have twin cores try to fight each other, they can
>   make Priori Incantatem instead of what their humans wanted them to do.
>   But Priori Incantatem is a charm that any mage with a wand can cast on
>   any wand deliberately. Amos Diggory did PI on the wand that Winky was
>   holding, to show that it had cast the Dark Mark. The PI in the duel was
>   many spells in reverse chronological order, but I am not at all sure if
>   PI as a charm can bring out another spell after it brings out the very
>   last one cast.
>

Correction: Amos cast 'Prior Incantato', not Priori Incantatem. Subtle Latin differences which someone who has, unlike me, taken Latin within the past two years will have to
explain. Anyway, my guess is that Prior Incantato shows the last spell any wand has cast, and Priori Incantatem is the phenomenon which occurs when two wands sharing cores are
forced to battle - namely, one of the wands is forced by the other to regurgitate all the spells it has ever cast, in reverse order, until the connection is broken.

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