bad Snape

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 138738

Carol responds:
> I agree with all of your arguments about Dumbledore being dead. I 
also
> believe that Harry, still in shock, is telling the truth *as he
> perceives it*. But a *jet* of green light ("jet" being the word used
> when "Stupefy" and other neutral spells are cast) is not the same as
> "a blinding flash of green light," the description that almost 
always
> accompanies a description of an AK.

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> 
> Harry imposes this preconception (along with his hatred of Snape) 
onto
> the moment in which he witnesses Snape speaking the words "Avada
> Kedavra" and sending Dumbledore tumbling over the wall to his death.
> Ignoring or forgetting about the Unbreakable Vow -- 
> Harry's preconceptions are reinforced for the reader by "Spinner's
> End," that sneakiest of chapters, in which JKR places the reader in
> the role of eavesdropper.

Finwitch:

Now, about that jet/flash, I'd say it's merely a matter of 
perspective. A light beam coming right at you would indeed look like 
a flash - whereas one seen from side, would be a jet. And as for 
Harry 'forgetting' about Unbreakable Vow - he didn't witness Snape 
taking one, now did he? It would be extremely clever if he suggested 
that, and cleverness is Hermione's specialty... She never says that, 
does she?

As for the chapter Spinner's End - as well as the first, the Other 
Minister - are not told of Harry's perspective. Unlike with the first 
Chapter of GoF, Harry's not even dreaming either of them! Actually, 
in this Chapter, we witness evidence - Snape admitting it the way 
Harry wanted truth out of Draco in CoS - that Snape gave information 
leading to the death of Sirius Black. In the end of OOP, Dumbledore 
is of the belief that Kreacher had leaked information (about 
Harry&Sirius) to Narcissa Black Malfoy. Here we hear Snape tell 
Bellatrix Black Lestrange and NBM that he did it - and neither of 
these Black sisters questions it. They would of *known* if Snape had 
lied of this. Besides, if the info that led to the deaths of Emmeline 
Vance and Sirius Black wasn't what he told Voldemort, what was? He 
must have told him *something*, you know -- or he wouldn't be alive 
there... so that part wasn't a lie. Dumbledore was in error to think 
Kreacher did it... remember how Morfin was confessing to things he 
hadn't done, even himself believing he had, in one of those memories 
Dumbledore showed Harry? I'd guess Snape had covered his tracks by 
doing that trick to Kreacher...

Finwitch