An AK Puzzle

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No: HPFGUIDX 133382

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Vivamus" <Vivamus at T...> wrote:
> There isn't time to read all the traffic here, so I'll keep it 
brief.
> 
> A. Did anyone notice that the AK does *NOT* blast things?  
> 
> When Crouch!Moody demonstrated it on the spider, it was accompanied 
by a
> rushing sound, green light, and the spider simply falling down 
dead.  When
> the Riddle family were killed, they didn't have a mark on them -- 
other than
> expressions of terror.  And so on.  A *missed* AK might be expected 
to blast
> something.
> 
> When Snape supposedly AK'd DD, DD was blasted through the 
parapet.   What
> if, as someone else already has suggested, Snape did not mean the 
AK at all...

Yes! Yes! I saw that, too. On the basis of the new Dumbledore 
portrait in the headmistress's office and because of Fawkes's 
behavior, I'm sure that Dumbledore is really dead. But the effect of 
Snape's AK was unlike any successful AK we have seen so far in the 
books. Dumbledore should have expired instantaneously, slumping to 
the floor because his legs would no longer support him, but with eyes 
open and with no change in his facial expression.

It is unclear to me what caused Dumbledore to be blasted into the air 
and then to fall from the tower. Was it the effect of a partially 
effective AK coming from Snape? Did Dumbledore accomplish it himself--
which would make it suicide? (I don't like that explanation, but it 
has to be considered.) Does anybody have any other thoughts?

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