Snape and Dumbledore on the Tower: A Defense of Snape.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 165370


> "justcarol67" <justcarol67@> wrote:
> 
> > Snape's AK on the tower is an anomaly,
> > different in many respects from the
> > other AKs we've seen. 

Eggplant: 
> But how many AK's have we SEEN before? I would say approximately none;
> we've only seen the after effects. 

Pippin:
We saw the one that killed the spider, the one that killed the fox, and
the one that was intercepted by the golden statue of the wizard at
the MOM, plus several more apparent killing curses that were fired 
nonverbally at Dumbledore during that battle.

As far as I can tell, the rushing sound is noted only when the curse kills,
but not always -- there's no rushing sound when the fox dies, just a
yelp. 

In any case, if you argue that none of us is expert enought to say
positively we didn't witness an AK, the reverse is also true:
we also can't say positively that it was. 

Pippin