[HPforGrownups] Who killed Dumbledore? WAS: Re: Karmic justice in Potterverse again.

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 145133

> Bart:
>>You forget one small item: Dumbledore is thrown off the parapet,
>>and falls to the ground, below. This, to me, gives three major 
>>possibilities (eliminating, for example, the possibility of 
>>Dumbledore still being alive), in reverse order of likeliness:
>>
>>1) Snape killed Dumbledore with the AK spell.
>>2) Snape used a mental spell immediately before to throw
>>Dumbledore out of the range of the AK spell, but it threw him off 
>>the parapet.
>>3) Snape was keeping Dumbledore alive; he mentally removed the
>>spell, and THEN cast the AK spell.

Corey:
> That's an interesting point but could you explain it a little
> more? 

Bart:
	The AK spell is not SUPPOSED to do anything but kill. The damage done 
when Harry survived was due, as far as we know, to a backfire. However, 
what you say may be true.

	On the other hand, the AK has a LOT of energy; if it doesn't kill, it 
will probably do something else (hence, for example, #3).

	Bart