Ron's Eat Slugs hex/jinx

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 150464

> Valky:
> <snip> 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. <snip> 


Sandy:
I'm not as eloquent  as so many of you are, so hopefully I can make 
this make sense. Actually, there is a precursor to non-verbal spells 
in book one. 

Book one, chapter 4, page 58, American version:
"Hagrid", he said quietly, "I think you must have made a mistake. I 
don't think I can be a wizard".

To his surprise,Hagrid chuckled.

"Not a wizard, eh? Never made things happen when you was scared or angry?"

Harry looked into the fire. Now he came to think about it.... every 
odd thing that had ever made his aunt and uncle furious with him had 
happened when he, Harry, had been upset or angry.... chased by 
Dudley's gang, he had somehow found himself out of their reach...... 
dreading going to school with that ridiculous haircut, he'd managed 
to make it grow back.... and the very last time Dudley had hit him, 
hadn't he got his revenge, without even realizing he was doing it? 
Hadn't he set a boa constrictor on him?

All of those incidents were non-verbal magic performed at a time when 
Harry didn't even know he was a wizard. But more to the point, it 
would appear that non-verbal magic can be performed when a witch or 
wizard is angry or frightened, with no real thought attached to it. 
Therefore, I think your last theory would be pretty close. Ron was 
certainly very angry and intended to act upon it, but it turned into 
an anger generated non-verbal curse/hex/jinx that backfired on him 
through his broken wand before he had the chance to verbalize it.

Sandy who never noticed it before now either.