Disarming spell WAS: Re: Wandlore and more

[clcb58]

No: HPFGUIDX 185410

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie"
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > Magpie:
> > > What's non-warrior like about disarming your opponent? Warriors
> > > aren't about magical power, they'd just be about defeating the 
> > person
> > > and I'd think expelliarimus would be used all the time. And Lupin
> > > himself is never much connected to encouraging magical power that 
> I
> > > remember. He just kind of randomly says it in this one scene where
> > > yeah, he does get put in this humiliating role of being lectured 
> by
> > > Harry.
> > Alla:
> > I would say that what's non-warrior like in this situation is what 
> > JKR presents as different about Harry – that he would rather stun 
> > then kill, that he is rather different kind of warrior, if you may. 

clcb58:
In the instance during the flight from Privet Drive, Harry *was* in
full battle mode, only switching from stunning to disarming when he
realized he was firing on Stan Shunpike, whom he believed to be under
the Imperius Curse and not a true Death Eater: 

"Harry sent Stunning Spell after Stunning Spell back at their
pursuers, barely holding them off. He shot another blocking jinx at
them: The closest Death Eater swerved to avoid it and his hood
slipped, and by the red light of his next Stunning Spell, Harry saw
the strangely blank face of Stanley Shunpike -- Stan --

"'Expelliarmus!' Harry yelled.

'That's him, it's him, it's the real one!'" (DH, US p.59)

I agree that Harry isn't a cold-blooded warrior, but I think his moral
code is broken into different categories -- those who deserve "battle"
spells and those who don't -- and it sets him apart from everyone else.