Snape's Attack on Flitwick

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No: HPFGUIDX 139537

> 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?)


Alla:

If Snape is suspecting that DE are in the castle and he may need to 
fight them, wouldn't it make sense for him to accept ANY help he can 
get?

And I think we saw that Flitwick knows many very different charms, I 
speculate  that he is a good duelist ( I thought I remembered someone 
mentioning this fact in the books, but I could be totally wrong, so I 
won't swear by it)

Regardless, though, I think it is a reasonable extrapolation to make 
that by virtue of Flitwick being an experinced Charms Master, he
could 
hold his own in the duel quite well.



Carol:
> 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.
> 


Alla:

That is a possibility OR if Snape is OFH and have not decided what to 
do yet till he checks out the situation on the Tower and figures out 
which side is losing in his opinion, then he may want to be alone on 
the Tower and does not need anyone else there, who may be able to 
fight him.

JMO of course,

Alla.