[HPforGrownups] Re: When did Snape invent his curses?

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 133403

As I see it, any spell can be verbal as well as non-verbal. So Snape MIGHT 
have at first used his spell verbally (perhaps he didn't know how to cast 
non-verbal spells at that time, they seem to be kinda hart to manage) - 
thereby accidentally teaching it to James et. al.

What bothers me more about the spells in the Book is that they're just that. 
The spell. Isn't there supposed to be a special kind of "swish-and-flick" 
associated with a given spell? Or is it enough to know the words of a spell? 
We know that the Unforgivable curses needs the WILL to cast them in order to 
work, so obviously it's not enough to simply repeat them, parrotwise. So how 
can you just read a spell in a book and be able to use it at the first 
option? Isn't spells usually something you have to practice in? Yet Harry 
got the Sectusempra to work at first attempt, and he's not usually that good 
in Charms, is he?

Argh, every time you get one thing answered in this book, you're left with 
two new questions as well *L*

~Trekkie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "greg_a126" <grega126 at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:44 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: When did Snape invent his curses?


> The thing that's been bugging me about this whole him inventing these
> curses thing, is how did James learn a non-verbal spell that Snape had
> created.  Remus says that the curse was quite the fad when they were in
> school.  So if Snape inveneted it, someone else would've had to have
> also created it independent of Snape, OR Snape didn't actually invent
> them, but he just wrote them down in his book.
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