The AK (was: My HBP Review)

[potioncat]

> Pippin wrote:
> 20) Snape arrives on the battlement
> 
> 21) Dumbledore begs him to trust him and carry out the plan
> 
> 22) Snape performs the AK which fails but blasts Dumbledore off the 
> battlements
> 
> 23) Dumbledore, overcome by the poison, fails to arrest his fall
> and dies. Snape can't interfere since he no longer has eye contact. 
> 
> 24) Snape escapes, with Draco in tow
> 
> There's no way Snape could have done anything
> to  save Dumbledore once he arrived on the battlements, because as 
> soon as he refused to try to kill him, he'd have died himself.

Potioncat:
So, by your theory, DD was planning to make it look like Snape had 
killed him. But something went wrong and DD died by accident, so to 
speak. Do you think Snape knew DD had a plan to save himself? Or am I 
just completely thick? So at what point would Snape really understand 
that the plan hadn't turned out? Or am I just incredibly thick?

Never mind that last question.
Kathy W.