Babyyy🌸🌸

I never realized why Hermione couldn't just heal Dobby at Shell Cottage like Snape healed Draco. People always assume it's a plot hole because Hermione knows every spell in the book. The real explanation comes down to dark magic mechanics, Bellatrix’s cursed blade, and a spell Snape kept completely secret. Why didn’t Hermione Granger use the same counter-curse to heal Dobby’s knife wound at Shell Cottage that Professor Snape used to heal Draco Malfoy from the wounds Harry Potter inflicted on Draco a year earlier. Because Hermione didn’t know that particular counter-spell. And it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway. Something that probably gets missed by a lot of people , including me for a long time, is that Sectumsempra is not exactly as dangerous as, say, an Unforgivable Curse. It is dangerous… just not the most deadly curse in the world. Think of it like we would compare a pair of scissors to a broadsword or even a deadly magical dagger thrown by the most evil witch of her era. Sure, in its way, scissors can be deadly… but one is more likely to survive a random, un-aimed strike from a pair of scissors, than an intended strike from a dagger designed to do the most damage possible, aimed well by the witch hurling it. So it was with Dobby. It’s almost a certainty that Bellatrix used a cursed blade, likely far more deadly than Sectumsempra, on Dobby, and also nearly as assuredly a curse whose counter wouldn’t have been known to Ms. Granger.