While Harry's spell didn't exactly fail, it didn't exactly go off exactly as planned either. Admittedly, the first part worked just fine, the spell bouncing quite admirably to Sin itself. With it being so closely linked to its Spawn, how could it have possibly failed?
Unfortunately, that was as far as the spell was going to be going. Seymour himself had very little to connect him to that which he called 'his'. He'd come up with the idea and the method, but beyond that? Nothing. It hadn't even been his hand that had held the metaphorical knife that had killed the people that had died to create it.
Consequently the only effect the curse had was to seal away some of Sin's strength - something that was not entirely visible to normal sight.
And then there was the fact that breaking the circle and freed the Spawn once again. True, it was more than a little disoriented by the spell, but it wasn't dead, and it would be going after the nearest living being as soon as it remembered where it was.
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Unfortunately, that was as far as the spell was going to be going. Seymour himself had very little to connect him to that which he called 'his'. He'd come up with the idea and the method, but beyond that? Nothing. It hadn't even been his hand that had held the metaphorical knife that had killed the people that had died to create it.
Consequently the only effect the curse had was to seal away some of Sin's strength - something that was not entirely visible to normal sight.
And then there was the fact that breaking the circle and freed the Spawn once again. True, it was more than a little disoriented by the spell, but it wasn't dead, and it would be going after the nearest living being as soon as it remembered where it was.