Snape's Attack on Flitwick

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 139527

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carodave92" <carodave92 at y...>
wrote:
> > mhbobbin:
> > 
> > Valiant attempt, Valky, but Flitwick's battle hardiness (assuming 
> > he's weak and that canon deliberately misleads) does not give 
> Snape 
> > a legitimate pro-Order anti-Voldemort reason to take Flitwick out 
> > unless you are saying Snape knocks Flitwick out of the battle "for 
> > his own good".  This seems like a stretch.  
> > <snip>
> 
> Carodave:
> I remember (don't have my book, sorry) that there was a welt of some 
> kind on Flitwick's forehead, presumably where Snape's curse hit.  I 
> don't think he could have just fainted.  If Dumbledore thought 
> enough of Flitwick's skill to have him on patrol that night, then I 
> remain Dumbledore's (wo)man enough to trust that Flitwick can carry 
> his own...except when blindsided by someone he thought was an ally.  
> After all, DD could have skipped over Flitwick and had another Order 
> member patrolling, no need to use Flitwick if he's not a strong 
> asset.
> 
> Carodave

Carol responds:
To my knowledge, Flitwick is not an Order member. I think Snape knew
that he had to get to the tower without hindrance (possibly in the
desperate hope of saving Dumbledore, whom he did not know had
swallowed the Horcrux poison). Also, as others have pointed out,
Flitwick was a lot safer unconscious in Snape's office than he would
have been attempting to fight DEs with vanishing charms or hover
charms. (We haven't seen any examples of Flitwick's courage, have we?)

If Snape were ESE!, surely he would have killed Flitwick rather than
merely stupefying him--and the girls as well, instead of getting them
safely out of the way by instructing them to help Flitwick.

Carol