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

[clarinut76]

No: HPFGUIDX 138600

> > Merrylinks writes:
> "An obvious question is, how can you verbalize one spell but cast 
> another spell nonverbally? JKR may give us a foreshadowing of this 
> when Harry *hears* the word "Expelliarmus" but *experiences* a 
> Freezing Charm. Throughout the rest of the scene, Harry continues to 
> hold his wand, so the Expelliarmus did not work on him. However, he 
> does remain rigid and immobile--the result of a successful nonverbal 
> Petrificus Totalus cast by Dumbledore."

I thought that it was Malfoy who cast the Expelliarmus?  HBP AE pg 
584 "The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and 
shouted, "Expelliarmus!"  Then, further down, "Then, by the light of 
the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand flying in an arc over the edge of 
the ramparts and understood...Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilized 
Harry, and the second he had taken to perform the spell had cost him 
the chance of defending himself."

It is an amazing idea that perhaps the words mean nothing as Moody told 
his class in OotP, "You could all point your wands at me, say the words 
and I doubt I'd get so much as a nosebleed" (or something similar...my 
OotP is in with my sleeping daughter)...and thereby, you could cast a 
completely different spell in your mind.  But, I tend to think that the 
evidence points to the fact that Snape really did kill DD.  His look of 
hatred toward DD (didn't Harry himself relate it to how he felt force 
feeding DD the potion in the cave?) and the fact that he hates being 
called a coward, I think means he killed him for real.  Now, maybe he 
wanted really badly to be performing another spell and that's how it 
happened?  Maybe Snape really does think he killed DD and subconciously 
he didn't?  Wouldn't that be the twist of a century?  Snape believes he 
really did kill DD, he's not really dead, and somehow they face 
eachother again?  Anyway, it seems crazy, but I love this idea that 
Snape cast another spell non verbally, while saying the words AK.

Rachel