Two Plot Problems

[geoff_bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 187617

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynda Cordova <sweenlit at ...> wrote:

Lynda:
> I don't see a plot problem with the sectum sempra.  Molly Weasley
> simply had not studied healing from dark magic
> curses enough to know how to fix George's ear. Not a problem. Snape
> had studied dark magic healing spells to that extent, and so was able
> to heal Draco. Again, not a plot problem. Just a gap in the knowledge
> of one magic user, that therefore did not allow the user to heal an
> injury when, under the care of another magic user, a healing might
> have been possible.  I think we sometimes make to big a deal out of
> things that aren't really mistakes or plot holes at all.

Geoff:
The relevant piece of canon is:
'Mrs.Weasley looked round and said, "I can't make it grow back, not when 
it's been removed by Dark Magic."'
(DH "Fallen Warrior" p.66 UK edition)

When Harry used 'Sectumsempra' in Draco, he didn't *remove* anything of 
Draco's. He merely created cuts which, possibly, could have been handled 
by someone other than Snape.

Going off at a tangent, one interesting thought which occurs to me is why 
Snape arrived through the door of the bathroom so quickly after the spell 
was cast. Has anyone commented on this previously?