[HPforGrownups] Re: Fake AK Theory

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 134717

zgirnius wrote:

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> Some have speculated for AK you just need to feel hatred of any sort,
> towards a random object, or whatever. But my personal feeling is that
> for a successful AK you either have to 1) hate the target truly and
> deeply, or 2) be so sunk into depravity that you no longer feel the
> repugnance a normal person would at the thought of murder. (Because I
> think most people probably can and do hate *something*, that's not
> unfogivable.) My personal feeling is that Snape cannot AK Dumbledore
> for this reason. Even if he really needs to/wants to for a variety of
> practiccal reasons. It is possible he tries and fails...perhaps the
> blast, etc. is the effect of a failed AK, especially since we can
> presume a lot of magical power is behind the spell, Snape being what
> he is. Or, alternatively, Snape suspects his AK would fail, and fakes
> it, killing DD by throwing him off the tower in order to cover
> himself with the Death Eaters present. (The point of the exercise, if
> we believe a Good!Snape theory).
   zgirnius

Kathy writes:
    Thanks for clarifying for me.  You have some very good points and 
certainly logical reasoning.  I am also pro-Snape. He did apparently 
tell Dumbledore that he was taking too much for granted, ie being able 
to cast a meaningful Killing Curse.
    I wonder how the Vow actually works. If, for instance, Dumbledore 
tricked Snape and faked his death, would the fact that he had not killed 
Dumbledore after all, kill Snape? Is it the belief of the killer that 
deactivates the Vow, or does the Bonder have to agree that the deed has 
been done. If that is the case, all they would have to do, is convince 
enough people to convince the Bonder that the Vow was fulfilled. Can you 
see any way that a magical binding would be able to tell what had 
happened? Are we just meant to skate past this and say "Oh well, an 
Unbreakable Vow is an Unbreakable Vow." This whole question perplexes 
the Hell out of me.
KJ