Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20160822213306/@comment-26687285-20180617185608

I'm currently listening to the Jim Dale audiobooks of the Potter series and I just finished Prisoner of Azkaban. And I realized something. Why didn't Sirius or Lupin just use "Petrificus Totalus" on Wormtail to stop him escaping?

I don't think he could've transformed in that state, and I don't recall anything saying that a body bind curse needing the wizard's ongoing attention to be maintained?

Not saying that this is a book breaking flaw. I get that the whole "If only [insert character] had done 'this', such and such could've been avoided" is part of the series' message. Fudge stupidly allows Crouch jr. to be "kissed" before he can give testimony that he was behind Voldemort's return, Harry discovers the two-way mirror too late, which could've avoided the battle at the Ministry which led to Sirius's death, Harry says Voldemort's name in the tent which gets the trio captured by Snatchers etc. But I just can't find a satisfactory excuse for this one.