CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 161323

k12listmomma
> 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.

Magpie:
What tracks?  Snape invented the spell when he was at Hogwarts and 
it's already known he became a DE after that.  It also appears to be 
commonly known he was up to his eyes in the DA at that age. He 
wasn't the one who cast the spell and there was still a witness to 
what the spell did. Also just because Snape's being the Prince was a 
mystery to Harry doesn't mean it was a big thing Snape was hiding--
he might have destroyed the book if that were the case.

If Snape's got his own reason for not wanting Draco to have scars I 
would lean more towards him symbolically not wanting that evidence 
of his hand in it himself rather than scars somehow making Snape 
look guilty of something to others. As to healing Draco in general, 
Snape's often taken care of injured students. I think he'd have 
acted to save any student that was injured whether he had any 
involvement or not.

surabhithesingdan
I never thought in my life that prof. Snape would be the half blood
prince. I am in a real confusion that whether Snape or Draco 
attacked DD and killed him. I don't think that DD is dead.

Magpie:
Do you mean you're confused about which one attacked and killed 
him?  It was Snape that did the killing, though there are many 
questions as to exactly why he killed him.  Some also question 
exactly how Dumbledore died, thinking Snape's killing curse was not 
really a killing curse, but Dumbledore is dead.

-m