(nvbl)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 152463

> steven:

> I was wondering, why did JKR take pains to make it clear
> that levicorpus is a nonverbal spell?  It could be a meaningless
> detail, but maybe not.  
> <SNIP>
> we know James used the Spell, and we know that Snape invented it.  
> How  did James learn the spell?  Since its nvbl, he did not hear 
> Snape say  it and copy him.  He could only have learned it from the
> HBP potions book.  How did he get his hands on Snape's potions book?
 > Snape was sharing it with Lily, which accounts for Slughorn's 
> repeated references to her potions ability.


This is a valid idea, and one of my guesses too. However, there are
some "but"s. Snape only could have shared the book with Lily in their
N.E.W.T. class (6th year). James used the levicorpus spell on Snape in
their 5th year, right after the O.W.L.s. In fact, Lupin told Harry
that the spell was very popular :"There were a few months in my fifth
year when you couldn't move for being hoisted into the air by your
ankle" (HBP, 336 US, 315 UK).
 
Snape certainly had the book all the time (it was his mother's) and
read it and wrote in it long before he was in Slughorn's N.E.W.T.
class, but as for sharing it with Lily, I'm just not sure. Even if
they had potions class together before the 6th year, they didn't study
by this book (Harry and Ron had to buy theirs for the N.E.W.T. class). 

What I mean to say is that the idea of sharing the book implies some
kind of out-of-class interaction between Snape and Lily, and I don't
see what that could be. They do have some interest clubs at Hogwarts,
though. In OotP a Gobstones Club is mentioned, and although a Charms
Club. Could there be a Potions Club? I don't know if Snape would be
interested in such a thing, he is not very much into socializing.

I thought about Snape/Lily thing a lot. When I was reading the book, I
was even wondering if Lily's brilliance in potions was the same kind
of "brilliance" that Harry displays all of a sudden in HBP. But when I
finished it, I realized that Lily couldn't have "cheated" the way
Harry did, just because, unlike Harry, she was tought by the same
teacher in her O.W.L.s and in her N.E.W.T.s class, and he would surely
 notice the difference.

zanooda


> trin:

<SNIP>

> Strange how Snape recognized and shielded the Levicorpus before it 
> hit him 

zanooda:

Snape is an "accomplished Legilimens", he doesn't need to hear the
words in order to know what's coming, especially from Harry, IMO