Neville's broken nose

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86006

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dj_bagshaw" <kate_bag at h...> wrote:
> 
> > Angel adds:
> > There's two interesting points to add to this. The first is in 
> > Flitwick's first lesson, where he cautions that students should 
> > pronounce things properly, citing a wizard that didn't. The second 
> is 
> > the spell that Dolohov uses on Hermione, wordlessly. These two 
> instances 
> > seem to be slightly contradictory.
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> 
> I believe the stronger and more trained the wizard, the less the 
> incantations are needed.  Take Dumbledore, for example...if I'm not 
> mistaken, there are not many occasions that we see Dumbledore perform 
> magic *with* incantations; he usually performs his magic soundlessly 
> (a good example is his "excape" from the aurors in OoP - just a bunch 
> of cracks are heard, no spellcasting).  In this same scene, Kingsley 
> also simply *whispers* the incantation to modify Marietta's memory, 
> and to my mind, a whisper is a very indecipherable thing where 
> syllabic emphasis is concerned.  There are many, many more examples 
> of magic without incantations being performed, through all of the 
> novels (note, however, that a wand is *always* present, incantation 
> or none).
> 
> I really don't know if any of this makes sense to you...I am still 
> unsure of most of it.  But I do think that the difficulty of the 
> spell might also have something to do with it...if I recall 
> correctly, Harry says that had the Death Eater been able to say the 
> incantation to the spell with which Hermione is hit at the end of 
> OoP, it would have caused much more damage.
> 
> ~Kate

Since the wand chooses the wizard, a skilled wizard using his or her
own wand probably needs only to will the spell to make it happen.
Snape wordlessly cleaning the spilled boil potion is another example
that comes immediately to my mind.

Carol