[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 161312

> Magpie:
> It does add an extra bit of gentleness to Snape--usually his
> response to injuries is to order the person to the hospital wing as
> if they've annoyed him by being injured (and I don't think that kind
> of gruffness is always a bad thing). I wonder if he feels the need
> to offer more healing for the spell because he invented it. And then
> it also may just be there to indicate that the danger is passed and
> Snape's speaking normally again, talking about ingredients etc.


My thought of this was totally different: Snape's spell was clearly Dark 
Magic. My thought was that he was so quick to heal Draco himself is that he 
wanted to hide the source of the spell, or at least, the very Dark nature of 
the spell. If word got out that the Prince was Snape, and that he loved Dark 
Magic, suspicion would have fallen on him all over again as being a faithful 
Death Eater in disguise. I think he healed Draco himself not out of 
fulfillment of the Vow, or out of compassion, but out of fear of someone 
finding out that he was the inventor of new spells in Dark Magic even from a 
young age. He was covering his own tracks.

Shelley