Something To Think About. . .

I was thinking the same thing about Dumbledore staying awake all that time. I would have thought he'd have fallen asleep. But i admire you Mione for going to all that trouble to come up with all that. You must read it all really carefully. By the way, didn't Snape shout Avada Kedavra? I'm sure it appeared in capital letters in the book, the British version anyway.

Oh, well I didn't come up with it, I just found it.
The name of the guy who did write it is at the top of the page somewhere.

Yeah, I don't know how Dumbledore would have stayed awake for so long.
Maybe he took some other potion to slow the effects of the Draught? I mean, he did seem to know what he was doing the whole time, so maybe he went more prepared than we thought. Or maybe it was a side-effect of the potion in the basin? Who knows? Maybe that's just the way the Draught of Living Death works? I don't think I read anywhere that it puts you out immediately. . .I haven't really tried to research it or anything, I just liked the idea so much that I had to share it with others and hear opinions. . .

I honestly think that the reason he was so tired was because of the stuff in the basin and he died because of the Avada Kadavra curse.

This is a very interesting and quite well thought, but I'm with the others here in asking "If it was the Draught of Living Death why was he awake the whole time?"

And yes, Snape did say the havad kadavara out loud, but that doesn't mean that is the spell he cast. Silent spells have been heavily emphasized in this book. He very well could have cast another spell silently and said "havada kadavara." Especially since we already know you can't merely say the words to the havada kadavara, you have to really mean it, really hate someone. So Snape just saying it if he was really casting anther spell woudn't have affected anything.

But snape had hate and anger in his eyes when he said it. So obviously he wasn't just saying it he was meaning it.

Well, I don't know about that.
I mean, he's really good at acting the part, isn't he? He's had to be a spy for so long. . .
Anyway, what if it wasn't hate for Dumbledore, but hate for Voldemort, or for things getting so out of hand? We can't judge by someone's expressions, because we never know what's actually going on in their heads. . .

I guess you could be right, and I have heard that before but did n't think of it until after I posted.

Shelby!!!????
How long have you been here? June of '05!!!!

We've been through all that.
The language of that passage has been compared to the part
where Harry hated himself for forcing Dumbledore to drink the potion.
Hated himself for following Dumbledore's orders.
It uses almost the same words.

Interesting. I'll have to look at that myself.

Sorry, I left for a few months and kinda missed out on some things, ya kno.