Snape-AK-dueling club

[Chys Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 142131

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "agdisney" <agdisney at m...> 
wrote:
>
> We keep wondering about the AK at the tower.  To be more specific, 
why 
> was it so much *stronger/different* then other AK's that we've 
seen.  
> Why did DD fly into the air?
> Reading COS regarding the dueling club, Scholastic pg 190 where 
Snape & 
> Lockhart are preparing to duel:  "Both of them swung their wands 
above 
> their heads & pointed them at their opponent; Snape 
> cried: "Expelliarmus!" ...Lockhard was blasted off his feet.  He 
flew 
> backward off the stage, smashed into the wall & slid down it to 
sprawl 
> on the floor."  Isn't this what happened to DD (without having a 
wall 
> behind him)?
> Maybe this is just the power the Snape is able to achieve when he 
> performs jinxes/curses on someone he despises.
> I'm finding more clues in COS in this reading then ever before.
> Thanks for listening.
> 
> agdisney
>

Chys:

While that's possible that it wasn't really an AK, I don't see what 
everyone's making such a fuss for. Yes, it could have been something 
we've seen before in the books, something other than an AK but I tend 
to not believe that.

To me, it was just an AK and he fell off the tower. It was like slow-
motion because it was Harry seeing things and describing it in his 
perspective, the greenlight- the fall, all of it hitting him as such 
a powerful event because of it being SNAPE and DD, it seemed as if it 
was slow motion, as if he were suspended- but he wasn't, he was just 
falling backward.

I think it was simply dramatic effect.


Chys