ChapDisc: HBP30, The White Tomb - What if...???

snow15145 kking0731 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 01:50:17 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 165874



bboyminn snipped:

In general, I somewhat dispute people's claims of what
is a normal Killing Curse. To my knowledge, we have 
never seen a Killing Curse actually occur. For example,
when Cedric was killed, Harry's eyes were closed; so
to some extent, we get Harry's preception rather than 
his knowledge.


Snow:

There may be one other thing to add to the quotient; all persons, 
whether we witnessed there death or not, were not prepared to die 
when they were hit with the AK. 

Dumbledore is asking Snape "Severus please". Dumbledore was prepared 
to die at this point so the exemption of shock on his face may have 
been due to his acceptance and not significant of the spell involved. 

In fact, when Snape concurred with Dumbledore's request, Dumbledore 
could close his eyes in peace trusting that his plan would succeed as 
a result of his death. 

The end product of the AK has only ever been seen from a victim and 
not a willing participant, so I would assume Dumbledore's situation 
would be quite unique to at least the AK spell. 






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