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the first additional scene to "Icebreaker":Snape getting hit by Helena Braithwaite´s disarming-spell.
The other two voices belong to the slytherin for whom the spell was actually meant to be and one of the other students. I hope you like it!
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Now that was a really good job!
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Yup. Yup, we know...
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The story works better if Braithwaite´s spell is a stunner, not Expelliarmus. For one thing, a disarming spell should not knock a person over. It should just, you know, disarm him. (When Sev was knocked into a wall in POA, it was by three disarming spells at once.) Also, if Sev is stunned, it makes sense for him to need to be rescued by Harry instead of being able to save himself. As you've said elsewhere, shock can explain it as well, but that has to be explicitly mentioned in the story. If the spell is a stunner, it is immediately clear why Harry has to come to the rescue, with no further explanation needed.
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It was exactly the scene with the wall (or in the movie-version the bed...why..?) in POA I thought about when choosing the spell. (Your explanation, though, makes totally sense to me, and if I ever plan to really write down the story I should think it over.)
The whole point of the situation is, that Braithwaite is actually a student from whom nobody would ever have expected a high amount of magic and power. She´s more a diffident child...
I chose the Expelliarmus to show the extend of the power unleashed at that moment.
And do you expect a Gryffindor-first year girl to know how to stun people? I mean, naughty troublemakers, like the Marauders, sure... but a girl of her character?
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I don't know what Braithwaite's character is like, but she IS a Gryffindor, and they're a combative bunch. I wouldn't expect a first-year Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw to know a stunning spell, but a Gryff? Very likely! A first year Slytherin might know it as well, but I would expect something sneakier and less obvious from Slyths.
One thing that annoyed me about the films, and eventually crept into the books as well, is that wands in combat seemed to function like ray-guns, not like magic wands. Spells would do nothing but knock people over,break chips off nearby objects, and ricochet off walls, as if wizards were firing phasers instead of casting magic. Magical spells can paralyze you or make you dance uncontrollably or stick you to the ceiling or cause you to simply drop dead on the spot. Or, in the case of Expelliarmus, it can cause your weapon to fly out of your hand. A spell that makes your weapon fly out of your hand, no matter how unexpectedly powerful, should not knock you into a pond.
And I'm sure Sev started working on his wandless Accio back when he was a teenager--specifically, immediately after the events of Snape's Worst Memory. If he isn't given a concussion by a triple-force spell from three brats he's trying to rescue, I'm sure Sev can Summon his wand back before it gets six feet away.
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Hmmm.... the wand-thing is right... annoyed me too, especially in “fantastic beasts”, it was even worse there...
about Braithwaite´s character... She’s a quiet girl who usually doesn’t get into fights and from whom nobody would ever expect such a thing. But the peer-pressure to act like it is expected from a Gryffindor( combating the “enemy’s “ house without second thought),and the wish to help her friends forces her to step in.
So actually she is not the typical Gryffindor. But you remember what you said about the sorting hat once....?
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What was it that I said about the Sorting Hat? That it seems to Sort by family more than by actual character? Or that is simply puts the kids where they ask to go, whether it's appropriate or not? I've said a lot of things about the practice of Sorting, including that it seems to tear all of wizarding society apart, and ought to be abolished.
I have to say that Braithwaite's desire to help her friends is more a Hufflepuff trait than a Gryffindor trait. Not that certain individual Gryffindors can't have that sort of loyalty, but it's not a sign of specifically Gryffindor character.
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Your exact words were: "the Sorting Hat went senile years ago."
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