Snape Survey, Snapeity, Dumbledore's sacrifice

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 149186

Tonks <hugely snipped>:
> > 9. There is no way that Snape can help DD with DE watching.

PAR <ditto>
> == sure there was. 
> 1. he could use a "levicorpus" variant combined with some other 
> verbal action and LOWER DD over the tower.  This is the man that 
> presumably created hexes as a kid.  (turns to the other DE's:"I've 
> been saving that one JUST for DD!). Finds DD on the ground and tries 
> to help him. Even if DD dies anyway, Snape has tried to HELP. <snip>

Carol responds:
Exactly. Note the way that the supposed AK behaves: It sends DD over
the wall, but first, for a fleeting moment, DD floats limply like a
rag doll. While I've theorized that the green spell (which includes no
rushing sound or blinding flash) could be an Impedimenta, your
modified Levicorpus works just as well and would be in character for
Snape. It's *his* spell, he invented hexes as a teenager and
presumably can still do so, he's an expert at nonverbal spells. Maybe
that's exactly what he's done (minus the gloating, which suits
ESE!Snape but not DDM!Snape). 

Note also that the bleeding Pippin keeps mentioning is not the only
clue that the spell is not a real AK. Even if the bleeding implies a
lack of forensic research (as Lupinlore suggests), what about the
closed eyes, which JKR must know are inconsistent with every other AK
she has depicted in the books? DD doesn't have time to close his eyes
and compose himself before Snape casts the supposed AK. He must have
closed them and reconciled himself to death (from the poison, not the
fall) as Snape was *floating* him over the wall. How else can we
account for the rag doll image, the closed eyes, and the "wise old
face" that looks as if it's asleep, oddly resembling the peacefully
sleeping DD of the portrait?

I realize that DDM!Snape doesn't depend on a faked or failed AK, but I
can't get past all the differences between this supposed AK and all
the others we've seen, in combination with Snape's astonishing
abilities and Dumbledore's trust in him. The peacefully sleeping
protrait does not suggest a DD who has been betrayed but a DD who has
died accomplishing some good thing.

Carol, noting that Snape could not have found DD on the ground and
tried to help him because he had to get Draco and the DEs out of Hogwarts