What Dark Arts?

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 5 21:32:36 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 136613

a_svirn:
> Right. But then, since he took time to learn it and didn't hesitate 
> to put it to use doesn't it mean that he "was into the dark arts" 
> himself? 

Alla:

Oh, I don't know if I consider all curses invented by Snape to be
Dark 
Arts necessarily.

Sectusemptra in my mind definitely qualifies. This one could be , or
not

I am literally not sure, but if it IS Dark Arts curse, then no I
don't 
necessarily think that James was into Dark Arts himself, I think he 
could have used this curse PRECISELY to show Snape how bad Dark Arts 
are.

This is a speculation, of course.


a-svirn: 
> As for the irony
 Well, I suppose there is a certain irony.
Just as 
> there definitely is a certain irony in Draco's using Hermione's 
> ideas and literally following her advice in HBP. The question is 
> what does this irony prove? 


Alla:

I can definitely tell you what this irony proves to me. :-)

It proves to me that the relationships between Marauders and Snape
were 
much more complicated then simply "big bad Marauders bully poor 
innocent Snape"

It again proves to me that we may be in for more discoveries.

Again,

JMO,

Alla.







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