What Dark Arts?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 136720

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:

CathyD:
> It was always interesting to me that the Death Eaters, apart from 
the one who got Hermione with the purple slash, used fairly benign 
spells against the kids, as well.  There *have* to be more potent 
spells around that Tarantallegra and Impedimenta.  Only Bellatrix 
uses anything potent when she Crucio'd Neville.  Whatever she used on 
Sirius (red light) wasn't Avada Kedavra.  A sunner to the chest and 
he fell through the veil.

Geoff:

I fear I must disagree with your first statement above...

'A jet of light hit the nearest Death Eater; he fell backwards into a 
grandfather clock and knocked it over; the second Death Eater, 
however, had leap aside to avoid Harry's spell and was pointing his 
own wand at Hermione, who was crawling out from under the desk to get 
a better aim.
"Avada -"
Harry launched himself acoss the floor and grabbed the Death Eater 
around the knees, causing him to topple and his aim to go awry.'

(OOTP "Beyond the Veil" p.696 UK edition)

Not quite my definition of fairly benign.....