[HPforGrownups] Stinging jinx on Harry in DH

Lynda Cordova sweenlit at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 21:34:01 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 187208

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> After rereading DH for the umpteenth time, something caught my attention.
> When Harry says Voldemort's name and breaks the protective enchantments,
> Hermione uses a stinging jinx to make him unrecognizable. The Snatchers take
> them to Malfoy Manor where it's still obvious that the jinx has been used. I
> don't recall anything ever being said about someone undoing the jinx. But
> once they are in the cellar, and even at Shell Cottage, no one says, "Hey,
> Harry, what happened to your face?" I realize more important things were
> happening, but does the jinx just fade away or what?

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Apparently so. I noticed, from my first read, that it is a jinx not a
hex, and in earlier books jinxes didn't hang around until reversed,
like hexes (thinking of some of the wandwork done by Fred and George
as well as others to the Malfoy crowd)

Lynda




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