Snape's knowledge of curses

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 34692

A lot of people have been using Snape's pre-Hogwarts knowledge of curses as a 
strike against him. Well, I think this can be turned into a strike in his 
favour. True, he is equipt with some nasty curses, but he is also equipt with 
the counter-curses. Take Quirrell's broom jinx for example. Hargid says 
something along the lines of 'Only a powerful dark wizard could do that to a 
broom'. Well, it would probably take a powerful counter jinx to fight it. 
Snape, probably knowing the "bucking-broom" jinx, also knows how to counter 
it. He may have even been the only one at the Quidditch match to recognize it 
(depending on if Quirrell was strong enough to keep going with 2 or more 
wizards doing a counter curse) and fight it. 

One small canon example, I know, but it proves that knowledge does come in 
handy ^^

~Cassie-(sorry if this was mentioned before, but there's been so many Snape 
discussions as of late that it's so hard to search!)