Harry using Crucio

[grindieloe]

No: HPFGUIDX 174514

> 
> colebiancardi:
> 
> For a fact?  I don't remember reading this in DH's.  Is this something
> that JKR said in her interview?  I read all of the questions/answers
> that were posted in livejournal, but I don't remember seeing that she
> verified that Snape did do an actual AK.
> 
> This was one of the hot topics after HBP - did Snape actually perform
> the AK, or was it something else - a non-verbal spell and the AK
> didn't work, because he didn't *mean* it.
> 
> I am very interested to see canon on this one.
> 
> colebiancardi
>



I do believe it was the AK!  He does actually say the incantation on 
top of the tower after HBP, and I believe he means it - not because he 
is ESE!Snape, but because did INTEND to kill DD.  Yes, it was through 
DD orders; thus, I do not believe that he has "split his soul" (at 
least not with DD murder). It was a "mercy" killing (for lack of a 
better word), so I believe Snape's soul remains in tact.  Of course, 
that does not take into account whether or not he already split it 
during his Death Eater days.

grindieloe :)