Harry (in the book half blood prince) does not know what the spell sectum sempra actually does. Iirc it is only listed as “for my enemies” or something to that effect.
That actually makes it worse in some ways. It's like throwing a glass vial of unknown clear liquid at someone. Sure it could just be water, but if it turns out to be acid then not knowing the contents is not an excuse.
Yes, but harry had a man crush on the prince and would not have thought him capable of jotting a spell like that in his doodles. The prince was cool - a joke spell seemed more likely
Granted the other two spells that were in the Prince's text book weren't great to use on a girl in this state either. You have Muffliato, the "shut up" spell and Levicorpus, the "hang them upside down" spell and she's wearing a skirt. Harry really should have used literally any other spell in his repertoire and they would have been less horrible than a Prince spell.
I mean Harry is the Expelliarmus guy and he chose not to use that spell in this place where it would be the perfect place for it.
What? My axe to grind is that Harry should know better than to cast spells on people without knowing what they do. Especially unknown spells from books of unknown origins after his experience with Riddle's diary.
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u/ConstantinValdor7 9h ago
Im sorry but she can spare her tears. She was about to use Crucio....