Ron's Eat Slugs hex/jinx

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 150381

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <donnawonna at ...> wrote:
>
> I've seen reference to Ron jinxing Draco with "Eat Slugs" and 
> decided to look it up.
> <Snip quotes>
> As I see it, one of three things happened:
> 
> 1 - Voiced jinx/hex from page 97 was carried over to page 112.
> 
> 2 - Ron did a nonverbal jinx/hex (Intentional nonverbals have not 
> been learned yet).
> 
> 3 -  Something is left out of my edition.

Valky:
Wow great question! There's nothing missing from your edition that is
in mine, Donna, we are reading the same thing but I simply never
noticed before. 

For the record I knew as I was posting about the 'eat slugs' hex that
there was some movie contamination in what I was writing, but I
figured it to be negligible on the basis that both the book hex and
the movie hex had exactly the same effects.

I have one or two theories on how an apparently non-verbal spell made
it into COS, myself. The first is that it could simply be a Flint,
many of the scenes in CoS were meant for HBP context which could mean
that perhaps JKR intended non verbal spells to be introduced in CoS
and wrote this scene before she took the HBP stuff out again, missing
this one in the process. This seems the most likely thing to me.

Another alternative is that JKR was working along some plot point of
intention in magic and Ron's intention to hex Malfoy with a slug hex
caused his wand to lets say 'charge up' with the spell he had intended
to use, but it backfired before he got the the words out. 


Valky