Snape's supposed AK (again) (Was: Dumbledore dead?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 151650

Beatrice wrote:
<snip>
> 2.  There was an odd thing that happened with the curse that killed 
> DD.  I don't have my books so I can't quote, but if you look at 
> Cedric's murder in GOF, when he is hit by the AK he simply crumples 
> to the ground.  Rather anti-climatic.  But DD is thrown into the air, 
> sails over the parapet wall and falls to the ground hundreds of feet 
> below.  There is a huge difference between crumpling to the floor 
> like Cedric, Frank Bryce, the spider, etc. and being blown off your 
> feet several meters in the air and blown backward.  It may just be 
> for dramatic effect, but still a bit odd.

Carol responds:
You're not the only one who's noticed these differences and thought
them significant. In fact, the uncharacteristic behavior of Snape's
supposed AK has spawned at least two theories (other than DD is not
dead), one that it was an unsuccessful AK because Snape didn't have
the will to kill Dumbledore, the other that it was a nonverbal spell,
perhaps Impedimenta, disguised as an AK. Given Snape's skill with
nonverbal spells and with inventing spells, I like the second one
better. Here's a link to one of my posts from some time back,
theorizing that the "AK" was a disguised Impediment:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/134812

You'll probably want to explore the thread in both directions for the
ideas of other posters on the same subject. And although our search
engine, generally referred to as Yahoo!mort, is not always reliable, a
search for "Snape tower AK" (no quotes) will probably yield some
results if you have the patience to keep trying. After all, we have
more than 150,000 posts on this site. Another thought, if you go back
to post number 132907 and work forward through, say, the first few
weeks of post-HBP messages, you can see the initial reactions to HBP,
many of which relate, not surprisingly, to the events on the tower
(and to the loyalties of Severus Snape).

Beatrice:
> 4.  I don't belive that Snape is really on LV's side. <snip>

Carol:
Needless to say, neither do I. I will be both surprised and
disappointed if he doesn't turn out to be Dumbledore's Man through and
through. (I do, however, believe that Dumbledore is dead, but quite
possibly it was the poisoned memory, or whatever the green potion was,
that killed him. I keep thinking of antifreeze, though obviously it's
too Mugglish.)

Carol, who thinks that we were meant to notice the differences between
Wormtail's real AK and Snape's questionable one and to realize that
appearances are often deceptive in JKR's books