I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Apr. 10th, 2013 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Luna, you're brilliant.
And you need to teach the rest of us that spell. It's the sort of thing that might even serve to distract Auror Crouch. (Briefly. And then he'd kill you, wet pants or no.)
And you need to teach the rest of us that spell. It's the sort of thing that might even serve to distract Auror Crouch. (Briefly. And then he'd kill you, wet pants or no.)
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Date: 2013-04-11 04:11 pm (UTC)But he said that the humiliating nature of the spell could make it very dangerous to use. If we ever have to fight against someone like
Bellatrix LestrangeBarty Crouch or Lana Sandoval, they're accustomed to being contemptuous of their opponents. If you do something like this, which shames them and insinuates that they're babies, then he thinks their reaction would be to simply go into a rage, with no holds barred. Avada Kedavra, probably. Or, he suggested, they might think it poetic justice to react with something like the entrail-expelling curse, which is really nasty, painful and fatal.So we should only use if we think it would be such a huge surprise that escape would be certain.