Snape's Psycology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 187460


> Carol:
>  (She also owes us an explanation for why kids were using Levicorpus, a *nonverbal* spell written in Severus's *NEWT* Potions book at the end of *fifth* year, but I suppose we can supply our own explanations--Severus was practicing advanced potions at home and making notes in his mom's old book long before sixth year, and some Slytherin that he'd told the Levicorpus spell to couldn't do nonverbal spells and so gave away both the incantation and countercurse by speaking them out loud--but I do wish she pay attention to what she's written elsewhere. Consistency in a fiction series is a virtue.)


Montavilla47:
I think there's a much simpler explanation.  Snape could have taught 
the spell to Lily, who was, he thought, his best friend.   When first
used it, Harry and Ron thought it a fun and essentially harmless spell.
It would be natural for Snape to want to share a fun joke with Lily.

If Snape then discovers James using it (in the SWM), he has even more
reason to snap at Lily, because it would mean she had taught it to 
James (or possibly, to one of her friends, who passed it along).