[HPforGrownups] Two Plot Problems

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 187602

rlevatter wrote:
> 1. Sectumsempra:
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> When first used by Harry, inadvertently on Malfoy, Snape controls the damage easily with counterspells and tells Malfoy there will likely be no lasting damage with dittany applied.
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> Yet when the same spell is used by Snape, inadvertently hitting George, the damage (a severed ear) is  irreversible, because it was "dark magic".
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> Why was it irreversible dark magic when Snape, a member of Order of the Phoenix, does it but not when Harry does it?
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Bart:
Because George didn't have Snape to cast the difficult spell to turn the 
cursed wounds into regular wounds. And, perhaps, because George didn't 
recover the ear. I can't figure out why they can't make realistic 
prosthetics, though.

    Bart