Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Levicorpus

sectumsempra
interesting how harry potter uses sectumsempra instead of levicorpus in the cave (obviously this is not tested in canon i don't think, but "corpus" makes me think it would apply to the inferi). i'd imagine it would be ...more effective than sectumsempra since the victim is only freed with liberacorpus, at least before the inferi got close enough to latch onto anything, although now that i think about it, the pure numbers may be overwhelming

i feel like levicorpus and sectumsempra are kind of "dual", sectumsempra being more dark. both were invented by snape, both have a spell to reverse it, both were used by harry potter without him knowing what they actually did; and even more tenuously, both have 4 syllables and two of those start with plosive consonants (corpus, tumpra). (If you count "c", you get corpus and ctumpra). so i feel like a better reader than me could've predicted that sectumsempra would have a negative consequence, although muffliato et al make the half-blood prince book ...more light on balance. maybe i'm looking too deeply into this AltoStev (discuss • contribs) 01:32, 29 April 2023 (UTC)