wandless magic was Re: - Broken Potion

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 116701


 
> Pippin:
> 
> Oh, definitely intentional. Snape wouldn't last long as a spy if 
he 
> could be provoked into doing wandless magic accidentally. I 
> don't think he was feeling anger at the time as much as the urge 
> to pounce. Harry was just too good a target, as in:
> "Potter, if you think it's safe to abuse my confidence and then 
turn  your back on me, you are mistaken."

Potioncat: (Who hopes this isn't breaking a vow.) 
 I think this is an interesting point of view.  Sort of moving from 
did Snape do it? to why did he really do it?  And we have seen Snape 
use wandless magic before, so it wouldn't be out of character.

Pippin: 
> If you think about it, Harry sticking his head into a pensieve 
while 
> in Snape's office was awfully dumb, even if it had been his own 
> thoughts in there. AFAWK, while his mind was lost in thought, his 
> body was still in the office, totally vulnerable. *Anybody* could 
> have walked in -- Filch, Umbridge,  even Lucius. In that case, 
> Harry would have suffered a lot more than being thrown onto the 
> floor and having a jar smash behind him.


Potioncat:
A very good point.  I still wonder at DD for not being sterner with 
Harry the very first time something like this happened.  Too bad it 
wasn't McGonagall with her "character building consequences"* who 
caught him.

(*quoting description from SSSusan in a totally different post.)

 
> Pippin
> who thinks most wizards must know better than to stick their 
> heads in someone else's pensieve

Potioncat:
Who suddenly remembers being a child and using a collandar as a 
knight's helmet.  (Sorry, a collandar is always what I picture when 
I see the word Pensieve although of course, it wouldn't work at all.)