[HPforGrownups] Snape's created curses (Was: Re: HBP thoughts)

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 133032



--- nrenka <nrenka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Irene Mikhlin 
> <irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:
> 
> >> Alla: 
> >> Sirius was right after all about Snape's
> fascination with Dark
> >> Arts. 
> > 
> > Oh yes, these curses were so dark, that the golden
> gryffindor boys 
> > would not touch them with the 10-foot wand. Oh
> wait, they did. :-)
> 
> Well, if we took Snape's opening speech in Potions
> as to show his 
> love for that subject, what about his opening speech
> in DADA? :)
> 
> So, here's the question:
> 
> Where did James learn those curses from?  [We know
> he knows the 
> upside-down one--no sign he knows the cutting one,
> which is far 
> worse.]
> 
> The most obvious answer seems to be: he either saw
> them used on other 
> people, potentially himself and/or some of his
> friends.  There's no 
> way that James would have gotten ahold of Snape's
> prized book.


I disagree.  That spell was nonverbal.  Unless they
snuck into the Slytherin common room with the
invisibility cloak, they had to have "stolen" that
information from Snape somehow (actually, that counts
as stealing too).  They can't have just "picked it up"


Rebecca

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