Snape flying away

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187279

Carol earlier:
> > Carol, wishing as always that Snape could have developed his many talents without ever having joined the DEs
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> Oh me too. He was obviously PhD level in potions but had to spend his working day teaching 'dunderheads' instead of in research which was probably where his talents would have led him. I read an interesting thought in a Fanfic or on another forum, that his childhood poverty may well have meant he had a second-hand wand. This could have hidden his true ability in areas of magic where a wand was essential as the link with his wand would perhaps not have worked as well as with one which had 'chosen' him from new. However potions seems to rely on the innate power of the Wizard/Witch with less reliance on a wand, which allowed his true ability level to shine through in Potion-making.
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Carol responds:

I'm pretty sure that Snape had his own wand. We never see him fail at casting a spell. He's always silently vanishing potions. His Expelliarmus against Lockwood is very strong. He easily vanishes Draco's conjured snake and ends all the hexes and jinxes that the Dueling Club kids have used on each other with a single Finite Incantatem. He conjures stretchers in PoA. He invents spells as a teenager, which would be hard to do if his wand didn't work properly for him. He easily (and silently) parries all of Harry's curses at the end of HBP (his Legilimency gives him an additional advantage, of course). His Avada Kedavra is so strong that it sends Dumbledore over the battlements of the Astronomy Tower (I think he must have silently willed his wand to do that so that Fenrir Greyback and the DEs would have no reason to remain on the tower).

Carol, who thinks that Snape was PhD level in DADA as well as Potions, with the possible exception of Dark creatures