Snape should have kicked James/Sirius' behinds!!.

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 156454

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wynnleaf" <fairwynn at ...> wrote:
>
> James' first curse was made in a surprise
> attack while his wand was out and Snape's wand was not out.  His next
> curse was on a wandless Snape.  His next curse was on a bound,
> wandless Snape.  His next curse (following Snape's Sectumsempra) was
> on a person partly coming out of the Impedimenta jinx.  Then Sirius
> curses Snape immediately after James releases him from up in the air.
>  Then James releases Sirius' curse, but continues to hold Snape under
> wand point, from which he makes his final hex/jinx on someone he
> already had at his mercy.

Allie:

Which begs the question, why didn't Snape use nonverbal magic?  He 
must have known that it COULD be done, having invented levicorpus 
himself.  Why didn't he try something else, ANYTHING else, to get 
James off him?  Even if he wasn't sure it would work without his wand, 
I think he would have tried, like Harry did on the train after Draco 
broke his nose.