CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 94341

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elfundeb2" <elfundeb at c...> wrote:
 
> In DADA class, Umbridge again assigns silent reading.  Hermione 
> reveals that she has read the entire book and questions the author's 
> dismissive views of counter-jinxes.

Apparently Slinkhard wrote that 'counter-jinx' is merely what people
call their jinxes in order to sound respectable. That seems factually
wrong to me. Exmples in canon give me the impression that
'counter-jinx' is not a jinx on someone who 'deserves it' but rather a
shield against a jinx or an antidote for its effects. 

Here's a snippet from GoF Ch. 31 'The Third Task': "He was still
having trouble with the Shield Charm, though. This was supposed to
cast a temporary, invisible wall around himself that deflected minor
curses; Hermione managed to shatter it with a well placed Jelly-Legs
Jinx. Harry wobbled around the room for ten minutes afterwards before
she had looked up the counter-jinx." In that example, the counter-jinx
is an antidote.

And Ch 14, Crouch!Moody's Unforgiveable Curses lesson chapter, uses
the term 'counter-curse', which I think is much the same as
counter-jinx. "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's
no counter-curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has
ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me."