Dumbledore's death

[mimbeltonia]

No: HPFGUIDX 139246


Rebecca:
> ..maybe Snape used an alternative non-verbal spell to make 
> Dumbledore fly up in the air. 
> If this was a way out of killing D it certainly did't work as D 
fell 
> to his death at the foot of the tower. 
> I have to admit that this doesn't make sense, except for the fact 
> that it explains away the fact that the hold of D's petrifics 
totalis 
> spell doesn't break as D is AK'd, it doesn't break until D hits the 
> floor several seconds later.
> 
> It is certainly odd, which ever way you look at it. I mean, Cedric 
> and Frank Bryce just fall to the floor. The fox and the spider just 
> die. They don't fly up in the air. I can't help thinking that JKR 
> doesn't tend to make mistakes, so there's likely to be a reason for 
> the difference in this case.

Now Mimbeltonia:

I see the reasoning - as well as the wishful thinking, I am sure ; ) 
behind this theory. However, I believe that Snape really AKs 
Dumbledore. The reason why the AK is so much stronger than in the 
case of Frank Bryce and Cedric Diggory, I believe to be the caster of 
the spell. Unlike Voldemort killing Bryce and Wormtail killing 
Diggory, Snape's action has no indifference to it. It is the most 
difficult thing he has done in his entire life, his is filled with 
anger, regret (IMO), determination and a lot of other feelings. He 
does it "at a run" and violently. The curse is so strong that 
Dombledore is not only killed, but thrown up into the air.

As for Harry still being petrified: He is not, I believe. He is 
unable to scream ouy load and to move, but realises as the DEs depart 
that he is no longer held by Dumbledore's curse, but rather his own 
shock.



> Rebecca
> 
> Yeah, I wonder how much the portrait can tell her. The headmasters 
> and mistresses of Hogwarts are bound to help the current Head of 
> hogwarts - does that mean Dumbldore will have to tell McGonegal all 
> he knows? (presuming that he wakes up at some point).
> 


Mibletonia now:

I do not think the portraits convey information that the depicted 
person knew in his or her time. They only react much in the same way 
as they did when alive, repeat phrases etc.


BUT: I'll be happy to find that I am wrong on both items!


-mimbeltonia