[HPforGrownups] Snape's AK Failed!!! with other comments

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 134354

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From: "smartone564" <smartone56441070 at aol.com>
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> 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.

I think there's a VERY good reason why we're introduced to Non-verbal spells 
in this book. If they didn't have some ... larger meaning, there was no use 
to bring them in at all. So it supports my pet theory that, not, Snape 
wasn't able to cast a functional AK against Dumbledore, the only person who 
has ever truly trusted and protected him - so he *said* the words Avada 
Kedavra, but since he couldn't possibly mean them, he had to couple them 
with a non-verbal spell, expelliarmus or something similar, to throw 
Dumbledore up and kill him, weakened as he was. I am sure that AK isn't the 
*only* curse that is lethal anyway. Snape had to figure out siomething that 
would look convincing. He NEEDED it to appear like he WAS able to AK 
Dumbledore, if it came out that he "loved" Dumbledore too much to do so, he 
would have blown his DE cover completely.

So I'm pretty sure there was a non-verbal spell at play here, as well as the 
unsuccesful AK.

~Trekkie
who refuses to believe in ESE!Snape