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

[lolita_ns]

No: HPFGUIDX 138683

Eggplant:
> Depending on circumstances we've seen Avada Kedavra leave a scar,
> destroy a house and smash a very large statue into dust. In fact I
> don't think we've seen that particular curse work exactly the same 
way
> twice. 



Actually, we have seen AK performed in the same way not twice, but 
thrice - remember the Riddles? And, apparently, if cast right, AK does 
not leave a trace (the Muggle authorities could not find anything 
wrong with the Riddles' bodies, and Dumbledore's body was the same - 
to Harry, Dumbledore seemed merely asleep). The only AK that we know 
of that has left a trace is the botched one Voldemort used on Harry 
(and even if we still don't know what exactly went wrong there, we can 
at least agree that it was not a textbook example of a well-cast AK). 
Otoh, AK does tend to destroy any objects in its way (as was seen in 
the scene of the duel in DoM in OotP).
 
As for the house that got destroyed, I rather suspect that, if 
Wormtail was present that night at Godric's Hollow (Who led Voldemort 
to the house? Who picked up his wand and gave it back to him after all 
those years?), it was most definitely his doing (after all, he is well 
known for such explosions, remember that he blew up a  street full of 
people as a punch line of his confrontation with Sirius).
 
And as for the thery that Snape did not use AK to kill Dumbledore... 
What could possibly be gained, plotwise, by that? Kill him he did, and 
what does it matter what curse he used? If he is ever proven to be not-
completely-evil, it will most probably be because of some preconceived 
master plan between him and Dumbledore, and not beacause of the fact 
that, in killing Dumbledore, he did not use the AK curse. And 
Dumbledore is definitely, but most definitely, truly dead (otherwise, 
all of JKR's comments on death being definite, no spell being powerful 
enough to resurrect the dead, etc. would be a load of... well, you 
know. Not to mention the fact that, in the sense of pure literary 
value, the books would suffer a lot if Dumbledore turned out to be 
alive and kicking after all. And you can trust me on that, I am, after 
all, an English teacher and a postgraduate in Anglo-American 
literature. :) ) 


Lolita.