Serpensotia spell. Was:Underage magic (was: Re: Silent/Wandless Magic?)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 102023

Mel:
> Why not? Perhaps it's not a difficult spell. Are we to believe 
that 
> ONLY Hermione can learn a spell first time? Harry, who takes 
forever 
> to learn a simple summoning charm can manage a patronus. I really 
> don't find it so hard to believe that Draco manages this single 
> spell the first time. Besides, do you really want to read a duel 
> scene in which it takes the participants 25 tries to get each 
spell. 
> They were ALL hurling new spells around. How long did it take them 
> to get 'expilliarmus' right?

Jen: The only problem with this is...what if Draco gets it wrong? 
Harry would have a clean shot at him, not something Snape and Draco 
want. More humiliation for Draco, then. 

It seems like learning to produce a snake would be a little like 
learning transfiguration--you start producing inantimate objects 
first, then move on to insects, etc.  Even Hermione has only been 
able to produce fire so far by COS.