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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187461

Carol earlier:
> Nevertheless, we see in DH that Mrs. Weasley can't restore the ear that George lost to Sectumsempra (I'll bet that Snape could have), and saving Draco requires an elaborate, chanted countercurse.
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> Cyril:
> The one difference that I see in this case with George is that he probably was not carrying the ear with him. In the heat of battle it would have fallen to the ground and probably lost. So the question is not about healing the 'cut' but rather growing a new ear in its place. Maybe even Snape would not have been able to fix it, unless he got the original ear back and then just healed the cut.
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> JMO,
> Cyril.
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Carol responds:
A Summoning Charm ("Accio ear!") could have retrieved the ear, but Mrs. Weasley didn't have the skill to reattach it. In fact, considering that the spell is Dark Magic and Snape needed his own chanted (or half-sung) countercurse to heal Draco (with Dittany later to prevent scarring), she shouldn't have been able to heal the wound at all. (George is left with a hole in the side of his head which I presume is the ear canal, but no bleeding.) At any rate, if anyone could reattach the ear, it would have been Snape, the only person, AFAWK, who knew the countercurse to Sectumsempra. (BTW, even Dittany works differently in DH than it does in HBP, where it merely prevents scarring. Hermione uses it in DH to stop the bleeding from Ron's Splinching. (We didn't see any bleeding, IIRC, when Susan Bones Splinched herself in HBP. However, in that instance, Snape was one of the teachers who hovered around her and Harry didn't know which of them put her back together or how.)

BTW, given George's personality (he actually joked about having a missing ear--talk about a "talking point" or as we would say in the U.S., a conversation piece--and enjoyed being easily distinguishable from Fred), he might not have wanted to have his ear restored. 

Carol, who cried over George's bravery at the same time she groaned over his egregious puns