Spells without Wands

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138603

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Matthew Buffington"
<mattcbuff at y...> wrote:
> Which then comes to my real point, if DD was so powerful, why does 
> being wandless leave him so vulnerable? (This is assuming that he 
> didn't have a plan to die or appear to die) I can also think of a 
> several other reasons why it would be useful to use spells without 
> wands. We know it is possible, so why can't powerful individuals 
> channel that power whenever they wish.
> 
> Being new to the group and the whole HP world, I would love to hear 
> some theories about this issue. 


Valky:
What a Spring board for Good Snape that one is! LOL :D

You make an excellent point, Matt. Although, I earlier saw I post that
quoted from OOtP. One of the OWl examiners was raving about Dumbeldore
being ble to do amazing things *with a wand*. SO there is sepcultive
territory to cross hen considering what DD can or cannot do without one.

However, that all said, in politeness to my old friends the
fencesitters and the ones who fell down on the ESE side after OOtP ;P 
If DD can do amazing things with a wand, then it really dumbs down
Harry's reliability as a witness to the fact that DD
[paraphrased]"..used up his last chance to defend himself to freeze
Harry" Yes?  A baboon brandishing a stick (;D) would be more creative
than *that* if he really planned to get away alive, right? 

And what about Snape walking in on that mess? Here's Dumbledore, the
great wizard the only one Voldemort feared, who Snape had worked for
15 years!, slumped in a corner, with Harry standing behind the door,
(yeah if Draco saw the other broom then Snape did), having done
apparently nothing to capture the useless bunch of wizard school
dropouts standing in front of him. 

Could this really make any sense to Severus? If he was really ESE
wouldn't he be at least a little wary that *he* was walking into a
trap. It makes for a whole new twist on Snape stopping to gaze at
Dumbledore for a moment. 

This scene is just so completely not cut and dry, I could poke holes
in it all day. But I think I might just leave it there and see what
the other curious minds here make of these inconsistencies..


Valky
Remembering, Cedric Diggory