My HBP Review (the Snape part, of course)

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:
> Do we still need these?
> Too hard to check the rules
> Much easier to cut and paste
> These lines with edit tools
> 
> Do we still need these?
> Too hard to check the rules
> Much easier to cut and paste
> These lines with edit tools
> 
> Do we still need these?
> Too hard to check the rules
> Much easier to cut and paste
> These lines with edit tools
> 
> Do we still need these?
> Too hard to check the rules
> Much easier to cut and paste
> These lines with edit tools
>
> Personally, I think it's likely that Snape augmented AK to do the 
> physical aspect--because even if he didn't have the heart and true 
> intent to kill Dumbledore, the fall sure as hell would. Maybe it 
> was spell insurance, blowing him over the edge of the tower in 
> addition to the AK--even if Snape couldn't "mean" it the way you 
> must mean AK, Dumbledore's death was assured by gravity. Maybe the 
> other DEs watching would attribute the physical effect to pent-up 
> frustration over the years.

On the physical aspect: we've seen a spider just keel over.  We 
didn't see Cedric die (IIRC, right?).  So we haven't really seen 
people being AKed in canon.  We did, however, see an intercepted AK 
blast the crap out of things in the Ministry battle.  I don't see how 
AK expressing force is particularly shocking or even abnormal, given 
that latter.  But maybe I'm just rationalizing away valuable clues. :)

-Nora sits the fence on this one