Sectumsempra and the DEs

[Rald Sedgewick Radcliffe]

No: HPFGUIDX 151441

Angie <gelite67 at ...> wrote:
> Any theories as to why Harry didn't use Sectumsepmra on the DEs at 
> the end of HBP?
> 
> He tried it on the dead bodies in the cave, to no effect, but not 
> on the live DEs upon whom, presumably, it would have worked.
> 
> Seems like it should've been no holds barred -- he'd just witnessed 
> Snape kill DD and he believed someone in the Order (or perhaps a 
> student) was dead.  It just seems odd to me that he wouldn't have 
> used that curse on his enemies.


"Rald Sedgewick Radcliffe":
He used the sectumsempra, if I'm not mistaken. He used it to Professor 
Snape but Snape blocked the sectumsepra. Remember Professor Snape's 
line when he blocked Harry's attempt to use the jinx to him? "ARE YOU 
TRYING TO USE THE JINX THAT I HAD INVENTED? YOU'RE LIKE YOUR FATHER" 
The line is not exactly like that but it sounds like that. He said 
that line before he told to Harry that he is the half-blood prince. 
Read THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE CHAPTER THAT HAD A TITLE FLIGHT OF THE 
PRINCE. I forgot the exact chapter number it but it the title is that 
FLIGHT OF THE PRINCE. If I'm not mistaken it was the chapter before 
the WHITE TOMB chapter which is the last chapter of the book.