Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 165165

> > Betsy Hp: <snip>
> > They (Harry and Draco) both pull spells for enemies as taught to 
> them by their mentors.
> 
> Quick_Silver:
> ...Draco and Harry usually fight in public 
> with their friends providing support/cannon fodder. 
> 
> > Betsy Hp:
> > If Harry *just* wanted to stop Draco, he'd have used a familiar 
> > defensive spell.  Instead he goes for the "enemies" spell.  
> > ...  But part of him must have wanted Draco to suffer 
> > as an enemy should suffer.  
> 
> Quick_Silver:
> I actually agree with what you're saying here (about Harry wanting 
> to hurt Draco) 

aussie:
Wasn't Harry going to try that curse out on Ron in the Dormitory as 
a joke? Harry didn't know what it would do.

Harry's definition of an "enemy" was very different to the HBP's 
understanding. Harry was shell shocked when he saw what it did. He 
began to better understand how dark the HBP was. 

Draco, on the other hand, had a very good understanding of what 
Crucio was capable of.

"Sempre Sectum" looks like the amended curse Snape used against 
James in the Pensieve. That curse only cut once, not multiple 
times ... but most curses don't draw blood. Was Snape thinking of 
James when he wrote "for enemies"?
-aussie-