CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 161232

> Potioncat:

> 
> The songlike countercurse is new. JKR hasn't shown us anything 
like 
> that before. Madam Pomfrey uses potions. Even the DADA teacher who 
> knew his remedies used chocolate.  I think it does make Snape seem 
> very Phoenix-like. 

a_svirn:
I dont remember is Madame Pomfrey uses other things as well, but the 
DADA teacher who knows his remedies has quite a few tricks up his 
sleeve besides chocolate. 

> Potioncat:
> Let's see. Is he like a Phoenix in other ways? He sings a cure and 
> stoppers death. Come to think of it he regresses to child like 
> behavior and just about bursts into flame from time to time.

a_svirn:
It's not the other way. It's still the same *one* way – they both 
use something "songlike" to heal. In Snape's case, however, it's not 
really *music*. It's reciting, chanting. He still uses incantations, 
he just pronounces them rhythmically. Whereas Fawkes heals without 
using spells at all. Just music.