[HPforGrownups] Re: Two Plot Problems

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 187620

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.

Lynda:
My point is still relevant, however. JKR spent enough time making it
understood throughout HBP that Snape is a healer of dark magic curse
wounds whereas others, even trained healers like Madam Pomfrey are
not, that it stuck out even early in the text the first me, my family
and my friends read it. And that generally means, she meant to do just
that. Point out that Snape had skills that she had chosen not to
reveal until that point. Molly Weasley does not. Madam Pomfrey does
not. Snape does.

Lynda