[HPforGrownups] Re: Drooble's Best Blowing Gum theories

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No: HPFGUIDX 70489


On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 20:07 America/Indianapolis, innovan wrote:
> I feel there's a problem with amnesia spell duration in the series.
> While all other spells are temporary in duration, amnesia spells are
> permanent. Gilderoy Lockhart's amnesia spells seem permanent on his
> wizard victims. Lockheart himself has been so knocked out by his own
> spell that two years later he's still learning to draw linked letters.

The memory charm spell is no more permanent than the "reparo" spell 
Hermione uses on harry's glasses in PS (or is that movie contamination? 
someone didn't seem to remember it so they asked why it wasn't broken 
in CoS, but i could swear it was in the book; and you have to consider: 
it _wasn't_ broken in CoS.), or any instance of "incendio" used to burn 
something; or, for that matter, the AK spell: the glasses stay fixed, 
the stuff stays burnt, the victim stays dead; and the memory stays 
gone. it's not an effect, it's an action. What spell can you name 
that's "temporary in duration", anyway? i can't think of any spell 
that's shown to "wear off" at all, now that i think of it.

--Random832