CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 161222


> > Zgirnius;
> >The songlike chant for a 
> > healing spell makes some sense because of the association of 
> > phoenixes with healing. 
> 
> a_svirn:
> I don't think so. The songlike quality was due to the fact that Snape 
> *chanted* (that is intoned the incantation in certain rhythm) rather 
> than pronounced it normally. Fawkes, on the other hand, sings without 
> words.

zgirnius:
Presumably Snape chanted the spell because this was necessary for the 
spell to work properly. We certainly have no previous indication that 
he has any particular musical inclination, and the circumstances would 
seem to be bizarre ones for randomly breaking into song.

It still seems to me interesting, and possibly significant/ symbolic/ 
what have you, that the healing spell uses music (even if, as humans, 
wizards would sing syllables, and not whatever it is that phoenixes 
produce when they 'sing').