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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138613

Kris wrote:
> 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:
Wow!, Thanks Kris, I really can't take ll the credit for unearthing
these particular clues. I'd like to pass the genius title around the
boards to the other keen-eyed readers but I'm not sure I can remember
everyone who has contributed to finding those inconsistencies with the
AK. The faked AK is based on the two spells at once thing I unearthed
from the end of OOtP battle between DD and LV, so I'll hang on to the
"g" or the "e" ;D

Kris:  
> 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."
> 

Valky:
Now this I definitely believe. It's a faith thing, Harry really needs
to have a bit more faith. After he saved the Philosophers stone Harry
realised that Dumbledore, funny man that he was, had allowed him to
face Voldemort if he could, had expected him to unravel the mystery
and go after the stone. After the fact, Harry has unbelievable faith
in Dumbledores strange but enlightening way, but before the fact
Harry's faith is tested. He goes after the stone, Dumbledore expected
him to do this he expected Harry to question the job that his elders 
he had done, was it enough?. And when Harry gets to the mirror, this
is when he realised what Dumbledore had done, and his faith in
Dumbledore helped him, the faith that he realised afterwards that he
always needed to have in Dumbledore.

Everyone believes in DD to some extent. They trust in him to *know*
Snape, they turn to him for answers and guidance. Those who know DD
the man, have faith in him, and I do not think that this excludes
Snape. When Snape entered the Astronomy Tower what was he really
surveying with the sweep of his black eyes. Could one so long
associated with and trusted by Dumbledore, someone who DD had asked to
risk his life for the greater good, someone who had been following
orders from Dumbledore (strange, mysteriously nonsensical, orders like
the ones in the cave) for 15 years. Take the cave and multiply it by
500 and imagine, if you walked into the Astronomy tower as Snape what
would *you* think your were looking at. 

My take, Snape didn't walk into the tower thinking things were exactly
as he (Snape) wanted them. 15 years of working for Dumbledore I think
would give one the sense that any scene you walked into no matter
where Dumbledore was standing, if he was there, then it was exactly
how Dumbledore wanted it to be. If it wasn't, then he would change it
till it was. If he'd wanted the stupid Brother and sister DE caught
and Draco frozen in Petrificus Totalis then he would have done it
without a second thought and would be sitting next to the battlements
drinking tea with Harry. It's about faith. How much faith does
Dumbledore ask? Enough that you'll force poison through his protesting
lips? Enough that you'll watch him die on a rooftop?


Snapes patronus is, I think, a Unicorn. The Unicorn is a loyal
faithful, innocent creature. But it is also capable of terrifying
violence. 



Valky
The Lion and the Unicorn, were fighting for the crown.