DDM!Snape & the UV.

[juli17ptf]

No: HPFGUIDX 150099

Tonks wrote:
> 
> Snape may not have wanted to do it in the way that LV would have, 
> but he was able to because he is a very experience wizard. As an 
> experienced wizard who can put his emotions aside, or bring up the 
> ones he needs when he needs to, he was able to bring himself to do 
> what he knew he had to do. So in that way he had the intention to 
do 
> an AK. You could say he wanted to fullfill DD's orders. His 
> intention was to AK DD and he knew that he could and he knew how to 
> draw upon the energy that he need to do it. 


Julie:
I think you are exactly right, Tonks! Snape was able to pull that 
feeling of hatred and revulsion out of himself so he could perform 
the AK, and that look on his face proves nothing more than that he 
could and did do so. *What* he was thinking about to bring up those 
emotions and put that look on his face--his feelings about the 
situation he's facing, about his own guilt and how he put himself in 
this position, about DD's insistence on him keeping this horrible 
promise, about his worst memory of being taunted by the 
Marauders/rejected by Lily, about witnessing his father's abusiveness 
to his mother--well, it could be any of those (and they're just 
examples, so no need to jump all over how much or little evidence 
exists that any/all are true). All that is necessary to perform an AK 
is to draw enough negative energy, then be able to channel that 
energy into the spell. 

What's a little scary about the AKs when it comes to Harry is that he 
probably had enough of the former (negative energy in the form of 
hatred for Snape, and previously, Bellatrix) to perform an AK, but 
not enough of the latter (the skill to channel it properly into the 
AK). We can only hope by the time Harry gains the control to channel 
that kind of negative energy, that he has also gained more control 
over his feelings and impulses and he won't want to perform AKs. 
Because someone won't always be there to stop him from ripping his 
soul, snarkily so or not ;-)

Julie