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

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 156458

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.

Ceridwen:
Maybe he did try.  Since not succeeding is a negative, and since a 
nonverbal wandless charm would show no motion and give no sound, we 
would have witnessed it and not know.  I don't recall that Harry felt 
himself doing anything other than falling over while he was under the 
petrification, even though he was trying, really trying, to get out of 
it.  Maybe failing to succeed with a nvbl wandless spell was the most 
embarrassing thing?  *g*

Ceridwen.