[HPforGrownups] Spells used in fights

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 71317

At 01:52 AM +0000 on 07/18/2003, adamjmarcantel wrote about 
[HPforGrownups] Spells used in fights:

>I don't know if this has been considered, but does anyone else feel
>that a whole class of defense against the dark arts is useless?  I
>mean, apparently, to successfully fight off a gang of death eaters,
>all you REALLY need to know is "stupefy", "expelliarmus", a
>summoning spell, and how to lock/unlock doors.  They learn all of
>this in their first year so why bother wasting time with more spells
>than you will need?  I hope everyone got the *subtle* sarcasm, but
>seriously, if I were a death eater, I certainly would learn spells
>that Harry and Co. haven't yet learned to defend against or block.
>Nobody seems to catch on to this...they all use spells against Harry
>that he has just learned to use/block himself.

I will have to go back and reread the Fight Scene but I think that 
the DEs were limited in the spells that they could use due to needing 
to get their hands on the Prophesy Globe. So long as it could be 
damaged, they had to use spells that would not imperil it.

>It reminds me of the movies where the gangs of bad guys attack the 
>hero one by one instead of being smart and rushing him/her.  Has 
>anyone else thought
>the same or I am just an idiot?


This "bad guy gets knocked-out/down only to wake/get-up as current 
bad guy is going to get knocked-out/down" goes back to the 40's and 
the serials. I once read a story that was a take-off on the John 
Carter of Mars type story where the Hero was fighting off a long line 
of attackers in a narrow hall (only ome attacker at a time could 
fight). As he killed/disabled each one with his sword, the next in 
line would take over. The villain (at the end of the line) got bored 
with the wait so he pulled out his Ray Gun and blew away EVERYONE 
(including the Hero - thus not only spoofing the "Take a Number and 
Wait your turn to fight the Hero" Routine but also "Why are you not 
using your Gun?" type of fight that was spoofed in Raiders when the 
Swordsman was showing off his expertise [prior to the start of the 
fight] and Indiana Jones just pulled out a gun and shot him [remember 
that Raiders was a homage to the serials so it played off of many of 
the serial mainstays/situations])


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Bob Rosenberg