Inferi Shminferi

[jmoses22002]

No: HPFGUIDX 137157

 "prep0strus" wrote:
> 
> Was anyone else rather unimpressed with the Inferi?  I mean, aside from 
> the extreme echhh/jibblies factor, they didn't pose much of a 
> challenge.  I wouldn't expect the production of fire to be beyond the 
> capabilities of an average adult wizard.  Sure, being frightened, 
> creeped out, shocked, horrified etc (especially if you knew one of the 
> inferi when they were alive) would affect your reaction, but I don't 
> recall anything that would make me think a ring of fire would be hard 
> for a trained wizard to produce.  Dumbledore is very powerful, but was 
> also very weakened, and managed to do it.  If citizens took some 
> preparation classes, and had 'inferi drills', so that rings of fire was 
> a well rehearsed spell.... I figure, I must be forgetting something 
> that would make them a real threat.  Help, anybody?
> 
 
jmoses now:
  Dumbledore was able to produce the fire, but I believe that Harry
still had to help him in the boat and get them accross the lake. 
After Dumbledore drank the potion he could hardly stand.  If Harry
wasn't there Dumbledore would not have even finished the potion, But
if he did the inferi would have finished him off while he was in his
weakened condition.  
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  I do however agree with you that it should have been mentioned
before book 6.  It felt kind of like they were saying, " O yea!  There
are these other really scary things too.  They are really dangerous,
and they wil try to kill you.  I guess I should have told you sometime
in the last 5 years.  My bad."


Jmoses.