Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 181686

> Carol:
> 
> If Harry had wanted to kill Snape, he'd have used the Killing Curse.

a_svirn:
There is more than one way to kill, you know. In the WW as well as in 
the Muggle world. Bellatrix didn't use AK on Sirius. Draco tried to 
use deadly poison on Dumbledore. (And Ron, Harry and Slughorn would 
have certainly been all of them dead, if they had drunk 
simultaneously.) From his own experience Harry knew that Sectumsempra 
is a dark deadly curse for enemies. One, moreover, that makes death 
a "protracted messy affair" to quote Dumbledore. That was the curse 
Harry flung at Snape. That was how he wanted to see him – as many 
pounds of minced carrion flesh on the ground. 

> Carol:
> But my point was that Snape defeated Harry handily. 

a_svirn:
This time he did. Other time he might not. Personally I don't see how 
Snape could possibly hope to defeat Harry, if Harry ambushed him and 
attacked from under his cloak. 
a_svirn