Headmaster Portraits (was Re: Dumbledore dead?)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 151658

> Leonard:

<snip about portraits>

zgirnius:
Exactly.

> Leonard:
> Quick point about Snape and AK.  I agree that the forceful blasting 
> of Dumbledore off the tower is not consistent with other 
> descriptions of AK (where people simply drop dead without a mark.)  
> But Rowling does explicitly mention the green light in Snape's AK.  
> Is there evidence that green light is exclusively linked to AK (its 
> signature) or is there a canonical mention of another spell that 
has 
> green light (and thus might support a ruse.)
> 
> Finally, people have mentioned it, but I think it's a much stronger 
> point than is let on.  Dumbledore has been strongly associated with 
> phoenixes through the entire series.  This can't be coincidence and 
> there's no effective literary reason for this in my view other than 
> his eventual "return from the dead."  It may be even foreshadowed 
in 
> the fight at the ministry when Fawkes was briefly killed with AK.  
> An in an interview, Rowling took pains to clarify that Fawkes is 
> specific to Dumbledore, and not some kind of perk for being 
Hogwarts 
> Headmaster.

zgirnius:
Two canon references to green light with a spell that was not an AK:

1) in CoS, Ron tries to hex Malfoy. His broken wand backfires and 
green light comes out the wrong end at him. The effect of the spell 
is to make Ron vomit up slugs. So it certainly does not have the 
*effect* of an AK. And I really doubt an AK was what Ron was trying 
here. It seems both out of character and out of all proportion with 
the situation.

2) In GoF, after the Quidditch World Cup, the spell the Death Eaters 
used to levitate the Muggle family appears to be associated with 
green light.