Did Snape kill DD? WAS: Re: PoA - Snape knew?

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 143574

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>                                     ...Even if, as I fully expect,
> JKR shows Snape to have been loyal to Dumbledore all along, even in
> the tower scene and afterwards, readers will still differ in their
> attitudes toward and their feelings about Snape and the fate JKR
> chooses to assign him. I, for one, will feel cheated and betrayed if
> he is condemned to a life sentence in Azkaban or worse, has his soul
> sucked out by a Dementor (not likely with the Dementors outside MoM
> control, fortunately). I *would* be happy if, after helping Harry in
> some way, he came to an understanding with Harry--and with Lupin, his
> fellow DADA curse victim, with whom he has a lot in common if he 
> could only see it...
>
I too think that in the tower scene, Snape is acting strictly in 
accordance with Dumbledore's orders. All the information we have to go 
on comes from Harry's third-party perceptions, and Harry is neither 
infallible nor a disinterested part;y. We know that wizards can use 
nonverbal spells; also that Snape is a Legilimens as well as an 
Occlumens (Dumbledore too?); who knows what Snape might have been 
doing (and Dumbledore too for that matter) besides casting the Avada 
Kedavra curse on Dumbledore.

My personal theory is that what Snape is doing "behind the curtain" is 
creating some sort of reverse Horcrux, that leaves the soul intact, 
even while killing and even fragmenting the body, and transfers the 
soul into a temporary host (Fawkes?) until the body can be restored or 
a new body found. The reason Dumbledore insists on getting back to 
Snape is that (a) only Snape knows how to perform the charm, and (b) 
Snape is the only one *good* enough, in the most literal sense of the 
word, to bring it off!

That would tie in with Snape's patronus/animage being a unicorn. And 
with that nose, what else could it be?

--La Gatta