[HPforGrownups] Re: Fake AK Theory

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 134698

zgirnius wrote:
> 
>  > Kathy writes:
>  >     I would love the fake AK spell except for one thing. How would a
>  > person satisfy the Unbreakable Vow. I think JKR deliberately wrote
> that
>  > Vow into the book to make it absolutely clear that, for whatever
> reason,
>  > Snape really did kill Dumbledore.
> 
> zgirnius:
> I would assume the task assigned to Draco was to *kill* Dumbledore, not
> *specifically* to AK him. (Else why would Draco have tried poison?)
> Whatever spell(s) Snape cast on the tower resulted in Dumbledore
> falling to his death (if we go with the fake/unsuccessful AK theory,
> which I do.) This ought to be good enough for the UV.
> 
> BTW, anyone notice how Harry is free to move just as the DE's leave, a
> few seconds *after* the AK? Harry says he was just shocked-but it would
> take a few seconds for DD to fall to the ground if Snape's spell did
> not kill him...
   zgirnius

Kathy writes:
     I may be missing something here, forgive me, but why would it be 
preferable for Snape to hit Dumbledore, a 150 year old man in the chest 
with a different curse. Surely an AK would be a faster, more merciful 
kill than blasting him into the air and dropping him untold numbers of 
feet. As far as soul splitting, I don't think it will qualify as a cold 
blooded murder regardless of means because of mitigating factors. 
Snape's wand will show an AK being cast whether or not a killing 
resulted from it so it serves no purpose to kill him some other way. It 
would also show if anything else had been cast whether verbal or 
non-verbal. As long as Snape killed him with something, it should 
satisfy the Vow. Depending on how the Vow works, according to Ron,if 
Snape had tried to fake the death, I believe the Vow would have killed 
him. Do you think that Dumbledore asked Snape via Legilimency to ensure 
that they did not take his body with them? Alternatively, by Snape 
boosting his body off the tower, they would not be able to determine 
whether Dumbledore died from a fake AK, a blasting curse of some kind, 
or after he floated safely to the ground from the tower. Why didn't JKR 
just have Snape shoot him four times like they do on TV and put us all 
out of our misery?
KJ