Snape's AK Failed!!! with other comments
smartone564
smartone56441070 at aol.com
Sat Jul 23 06:53:02 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 134327
First of all, I'm glad it's now 1 a.m. and I can post again, though I
don't imagine using up any more of my posts in the near future.
Secondly, and the important stuff, is... SNAPE'S AK ATTACK ON
DUMBLEDORE WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL. For evidence, I recall the deaths we
have seen from AKs: Cedric, the three Riddles, the Riddle's gardener
(GoF), and DD. I exclude the Potters and others because we don't
have accurate after-the-fact accounts. In the first three cases,
five deaths, all victims were completely unharmed. In fact, the
Muggle police examined the Riddles and found nothing wrong with
them. Cedric and the Gardener (whose name escapes me) instantly
dropped dead. DD was blasted from the top of the Astronomy tower.
Wait, excuse me? All the others were completely unharmed by the
spell, except for the simple fact that they died, instantly. DD, on
the other hand, recieved a massive trauma and was thrown outward, and
then dropped to the ground. This leads me to believe that Snape was
unable to form a proper AK spell, because he honestly did not want
to. Since we know that unsuccessful spells usually only make a
partial effect, think about the numerous Transfiguration classes,
Snape did not have what was required to kill DD. We know that
someone must hate and want to cause pain for a Crucio spell to work,
and I believe that the other Unforgivables are similar in nature.
One must want to control someone else entirely for Impervius to work,
and for the victim to actually die for the AK. When fake!Moody
encouraged the class to use AK spells on him, he said he expected no
more than a nose bleed. Since Snape is much more powerful, and
NEEDED DD to die (even if he didn't want it), he caused considerably
more damage. If Snape was ESE or even playing both sides, as so many
of you expect, why wasn't he able to kill DD properly? Because Snape
is on the 'good' side after all. How he will be useful, or convey
that to the OotP/Harry, I have very little idea. I am not writing
the books, and do want to hear some of JKR's fabulous ideas to work
this out in HP7.
If you managed to make it through all of that without throwing up,
this might just do the trick.
It is very unlikely Fawkes will come to be with Harry, much like
Kreacher did, since Fawkes had ample time to return to him after DD's
death and did not do so. Unless, of course, Fawkes has some other
duty to preform first, and will return later. I do think it's
likely, however, Fawkes will turn up at the Final Showdown, if not
sooner.
Many people dislike the seemingly sudden relationship between Harry
and Ginny, but it's not so surprising and far-fetched. Ginny has
become increasingly important and part of the group, ever since she
hid behind Mrs. Weasley at the train station in SS/PS, to he CoS
involvement (key player, but minor in book), to MoM/DA, etc. I think
it's wonderful how JK managed to slowly increase her importance
throughout all the books, and land her in one of the few logical
relationships left, unless you H/Hr's want to leave Ginny and Ron out
in the cold. Of course..... ew, no, that stops there.
Finally, some of you thought suddenly falling for Ginny is very
unlikely. Some of you are also not quite the same age as Harry
anymore, are you? I happen to be 18, and had a girl in four of my
classes at school, when suddenly, after six months, I crushed on
(fell for, whatever you want to call it) her, for no reason. It can
happen.
Tone, who after all that realizes it is nearly 2 and took him
about half an hour to write this.
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