Copied from my notes document for my fic. Notes were taken straight from DH:

That's pretty much all we know.

 

We know that the Cupcrux was given to Bellatrix to keep safe (or something like that), like the diary was given to Lucius. Is it known when the cup was placed in Gringotts? During the DH regime, or earlier, possibly before Lestranges were imprisoned in Azkaban?

 

I believe before imprisonment

 

Was there ever any mention of a distance limit for House Elves and their own brand of Apparition?

 

Is anyone directly hit by either the Confringo or Expulso Curses in the books? Just wondering if limbs being blown to pieces (specifically by spell damage) can somehow be redeemed. Moody's missing some stuff after all - I doubt his leg was cleaved by Sectumsempra.

 

Yeah, that's pretty much my reasoning. Confringo is the Blasting Curse, so I would assume it's pretty Dark. As for Sectumsempra, didn't Snape create it? Unless he taught it to fellow Death Eaters (many of whom didn't even know each other) then I doubt it would be the culprit for Moody's leg. Unless there's a Curse out there which does the exact same thing?

 

I suspect that's the difference between a curse and a dark curse. A dark curse contains a component that make healing difficult or impossible.

 

While I agree with you in terms of Dark Magic being an intrinsic quality, that is what I'm getting at as well. JKR refers to curses as Dark, and Confringo is referred to the Blasting Curse (according to Hermione), ergo Confringo must be Dark... but I must have misunderstood.

Not trying to go all 'shades of grey' here, but hasn't JKR said before that some types are Darker than others?

 

I just started using my pottermore account recently and I got to the part about the original 40. Except when I read the list there is 39 names. Anybody have any idea who the missing person is?

 

Is there any canon evidence that Harry can sense Horcruxes? I know the locket had an adverse effect on him, but I'm talking more about fics where Harry can actually tell something hinky is going on with the objects themselves without knowing what they are.

 

While I read the books long ago, he can't, iirc. In canon, he knew what all the horcruxes were before he saw them. That sort of makes such an ability redundant even if he would have had it. He could also not tell that the locket wasn't a horcrux till he opened it and saw the note by Regulus Black.

Edit: In addition, just remembered, he encountered the diadem in his sixth year while he was trying to hide HBP's potions book in the room of requirement and didn't think it to be anything out of the ordinary.

 

There could be some limitations though because someone would eventually come up with a plan to call an house-elf to Azkaban and disapparate out or just smuggle things into the prison.

 

If it was Sectumsempra that took off George's ear, then it would only be Snape who could heal it. Because Harry hit Draco with it and he was able to be healed.

 

Probably, because Snape wasn't at hand to heal him?

 

Fair point.

Also, it's possible that skill level with the spell is taken into account. Snape's skill made it more permanent but that's to do with how you perceive magical theory, not related to the question.