Sectumsempra (was Re: Snape should have kicked James/Siri...

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 156215

> >Julie
> <snip>
>And,  most
> importantly of all, he's FIFTEEN! No fifteen year old boy is going
to  exert
> such rational thought and self-control in that situation ("Hmm,
perhaps  I'll
> just use a limited version of this potentially deadly spell to
teach the  prat
> a mild lesson, even though I HATE him and he just totally
humiliated  me").
> Especially not a boy as sensitive to insult and mockery as Snape.
He'd  go
> for the jugular instinctively, without any forethought or
consideration of
> the
> potential consequences. Much as Harry did with Draco in HBP.


Laura:

So did Snape have to go to help Poppy fix James, it being his
spell?  Would that not make the whole encounter even worse than we
can see in the memory we are seeing?


Laurawkids