Snape didn't kill DD with AK!! And here's the evidence...

[Kris]

No: HPFGUIDX 138585

Valky is a genius for picking up on this subtle and significant clue
(original Message 138472) and the idea deserves to not be hidden deep
in a thread message:

Valky:

"There is enough evidence to be going on with speculation that Snapes
AK was either a fake or half hearted, Dumbledores peaceful expression,
his flying up in the air, the fact that Harry's scream never left him
when Dumbledore *should* have already been dead and couldn't move
until approximately the moment when Dumbledores body hit the ground.
There is absolute mounds of questionables hanging over that Avada
Kedavra, it is absolutely *not* a given indisputable cold blooded AK
we've seen one of those and it looked remarkably different."



I was amazed when I read this from Valky... and really think
everyone should read it carefully! Every previous description of AK
is an instant death... so why not this one agaisnt DD? 

GOF (US ed.) pg 15   The murder of Frank Bryce:
"There was a flash of green light, a rushing sound, and Frank
Bryce crumpled.  He was dead before he hit the ground."

GOF (US ed.) pg 216  The demonstration by Moody of AK to the DADA
class:
"There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as
though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air –
instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but
unmistakably dead."

GOF (US ed.) pg 638  The murder of Cedric Diggory:
"A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids, and
he heard something heavy fall to the ground beside him
"

HBP (US ed.) pg 20  Bellatrix kills a fox while approaching
Snape's home:
"There was a flash of green light, a yelp, and then the fox fell
back to the ground, dead."


Harry and the Death Eaters saw exactly what Dumbledore wanted them to
see.  The assembled witnesses all heard Snape say "Avada Kedavra"
followed by (HBP US ed. pg 596) "A jet of green light shot from the
end of Snape's wand and hit Dumbledore squarely in the chest."..."as
Dumbledore was blasted into the air.  For a split second, he seemed to
hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly
backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of
sight."


Blasted into the air???  Fall slowly over the battlements?  What
happens to Dumbledore doesn't resemble the Avada Kedavra at all.  It
rather appears that Dumbledore is transported either under his own
power, or with the abilites of a non-verbal Snape spell... and then
SLOWLY lowered off of the tower.  If Dumbledore was really hit with an
AK... he should have died instantaneously and crumpled atop the
tower... and at the same time the spell DD had cast on Harry
immobilizing him, should have also instantaneously released him.  As
Valky noted, it is only when DD is out of sight that Harry is
released.  It could be argued that DD died as a result of the potion
he drank combined with the fall off the tower, or you could believe
that once out of sight of his "audience" he was able to release Harry
to report the "death" he had just witnessed.