What really happened on the tower./ Who cast second "petrifucus"?

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 155606

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Carol notes:
> > You may be thinking of the first Petrificus Totalus, which Harry 
> casts
> > from behind at the "brutal-faced Death Eater" (Yaxley?). But the
> > second Petrificus Totalus, the one that saves Harry from Fenrir
> > Greyback, is cast by an unidentified person who can't be Harry 
> because
> > Harry is pinned down and can't move:
> SNIP, go UPTHREAD to read the quote>
> >" (HBP Am. ed. 598).
> <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I don't know which one Eggplant was thinking about, but no, I don't 
> think that Harry **could not** cast this one because he was pinned 
> down.
> 
> It could have been done unverbally and yes, I know that we read the 
> spell, so it seems that it was said out loud, **but**, if it was 
> Harry, 
> for him it may seem that he shouted.
> 
> I will grant you that it is not clear one way or another, but to me 
> Harry casting it is a very big possibility.
> 
> And this would not be the first time when at the time of need Harry 
> manages something he was struggling with before.
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Alla
>

Now Pat:

Nope!  Can't buy this one.  Just a few pages later the only NVBL he's
able to cast is "Levicorpus" and he can't do that one, either, because
Snape stops him in mid-curse and reminds him of how important it will
be for him to be able to do the NVBLs.  I have to say I'm with Carol
on this one.  It had to be someone else, and Snape is certainly in the
realm of possibility.

Pat