[HPforGrownups] Re: ps/ss chapter 5

[Dorothy Dankanyin]

No: HPFGUIDX 192519

On 8/25/2013 7:14 PM, Alcuin York wrote:
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> Geoff:
>
> I'm sorry, Chris, but I don't quite see your point re wandless magic...
>
> Me:
> The point being that some of JKR's ideas seem to have developed after 
> writing PS/SS, so that certain things in that book contradict what 
> comes later. While it's pretty clear later on that spells can't be 
> cast without a wand, Quirrell does just that at the end of PS/SS: he 
> merely snaps his fingers and thereby casts an Incarcerous jinx on 
> Harry. Why couldn't Dumbledore have done exactly that to Malfoy after 
> he had been disarmed on the Astronomy tower? The only reason I can 
> think of is that, by then, JKR had decided that casting spells without 
> a wand can't be done, which is why Dumbledore was helpless in that 
> situation. Likewise, my suggestion that the DADA curse might have been 
> an idea that she came up with after PS/SS, and so when writing that 
> book she didn't see any issue in having Quirrell teach it for a second 
> year.
>
> Chris,
>
        It's my understanding that Dumbledore wasn't helpless on the 
Astronomy tower, he was trying to get Malfoy to understand that he 
wasn't a killer.  Dumbledore had asked Snape to kill him, just to make 
sure Malfoy didn't end up being one.
     Dorothy
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