HBP (Snape's) old school textbook: FIFTH year text/ Which spell Snape used

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No: HPFGUIDX 137039

> Potioncat:
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 But now I really don't 
> think it was the same curse at all. Partly because Snape knows 
Harry 
> saw that spell in the Pensieve. Although both curses could be under 
> the heading of cutting spells?


Alla:

Oh, but Potioncat, don't you remember that person can modify his own 
memory before putting it in the pensieve? :-)

Since it is likely, IMO, that it was Sectusemptra ( whether embrionic 
version or not), I SPECULATE that Snape did more damage to James  
that it was shown not less, Harry just did not see it yet.

After HBP I am very inclined to believe the very worst of Snape, NOT 
the best of him. Not that I was always ready to believe that prior to 
HBP, mind you. :-)

But now it is intensified  many times.

Oh, did I tell you that now I am almost convinced that Snape indeed 
left Pensieve on the table for Harry to see?

> Tammy now:
> There was a spell from Snape's potion book that was used during the
> "Worst Memory" scene, but it wasn't Sectumsempra, it was Levicorpus.
> So to me, it's clear that Snape had at least been using that book 
for
> a little while before 6th year. 

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Alla:

Yes, me too. Especially because Remus says that many people in the ir 
fifth year were using it ( paraphrasing loosely)


Just my opinion of course,

Alla.