The Case Against Snape

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 133176

inkling108 at y...> wrote:

> Snape, on the other hand, has no trouble casting the curse, and he 
> instantly succeeds.  Think of it as a lab test.  If the effect is 
> death, the cause must have been hatred.  That is the way 
> Unforgivables work.  And just in case we miss this point JKR writes 
> that he had an expression of "revulsion and hatred" on his face as 
> he aimed the curse at Dumbledore.
> 
zgirnius:
Others have addressed your other points well, I want to address this 
one. I submit to the Court that Snape did not succeed in his casting 
of the AK curse. The shock of the (inadequate) attmpt was enough to 
cause the weakened Dumbledore to fall to his death. (Just as Harry 
was ably to cause Bellatrix a moment's pain, Snape's attempt could 
reasonably be supposed to have *some* small effect.)

My reason? How do people who have been AK'd look? No mark on 'em, a 
look of terror on their faces, eyes wide open. (See GOF, description 
of the Riddle murders.) How did DD look?

pg. 608 US Edition.
"Dumbledore's eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms 
and legs, he could have been sleeping." COnsistent with a fall from a 
great height as casue of death...nit the AK curse.