How we read HP books WAS :Re: Half-Blood Prince

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183902

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I'd forgotten that Petrificus Totalus required a countercurse 
> (or the death of the caster!) and didn't just wear off. 
> (Or does it?)


I have no idea :-). I only wrote this because it was good for my 
argument :-)! If I was on the other side, maybe I would have written 
that Harry's Petrificus Totalus wore(sp?) off and Yaxley escaped :-).

Logically, Petrificus Totalus *should* require a countercurse, IMO, if 
we are to believe Harry, who thinks that DD's Petrificus Totalus was 
only lifted because DD died. I don't know if this needs to be some 
specific countercurse or maybe something like "Finite" is enough.

OTOH, it seems to me that the Stunning spell, for example, *does* wear 
off, because Stupefied people tend to rejoin the battle really 
quickly :-). Look how quickly Yaxley caught up with HRH in the Atrium 
after being stunned by Harry! Of course, there is always a possibility 
that some other Ministry worker was at the dungeons, not only Yaxley 
and Umbridge (maybe in another courtroom), so that person found them 
right after the fugitives left and "Ennervated" them :-).


zanooda, who doesn't know much about about spells and who doesn't even 
understand how exactly Confundus charm works ...