Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181693

Magpie:
> I was not talking about freak accidents, I was talking about things 
> much more obviously violent. Draco isn't a killer either, but the 
> only thing that kept him from being a murderer of Ron and Katie was 
> that Snape intervened, because the poison was a lot more serious 
> about killing than Draco himself was. Harry was ready to use 
> Sectumsempra on Snape and had already almost killed somebody with 
> that. Because Sectumsempra was more serious about its purpose than 
> Harry was. Neither boy could really be said to not know how to kill.
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Carol responds:
Sectumsempra is Snape's own spell, and he parried it easily when Harry
tried to use it on him. And even if Harry sneaked up on Snape in his
Invisibility Cloak, he's never learned to cast a nonverbal spell, so
Snape could duck, cast a Protego, or parry the curse as he saw it
coming toward him, judging the direction based on the light from the
spell. And the moment Harry cast or tried to cast a spell, Snape would
know where he was. All he'd need would be a nonverbal Petrificus
Totalus to immobilize Harry and force him to listen.

As I said before, Harry wasn't trying to kill Snape or he wouldn't
have tried Crucio and Stupedy and Impedimenta. He was trying to hurt
and punish him and to make him fight a duel. He wasn't out to commit
murder. He was trying to get revenge on an opponent who outclassed him
in every way. 

Carol, who thinks that Snape faced from Voldemort was at no risk
whatever from Harry