Voldemort orders Nagini in parseltongue to kill and she bites Snape in the neck.
Voldemort coldly levitates the cage away from Snape, who falls to the floor, bleeding from his wounds. He leaves the room with the snake floating after him.
One of the most STUPID and CONTRIVED scenes in the entire book. In EVERY OTHER PASSAGE where Riddle has killed someone it's been via a 'flash of green light'. The housekeeper and her children - green light. Grindlewald - green light. The goblin - green light.
But here? Why, Voldemort not only DOESN'T use the instantly-kills-him-dead curse, he also gets Nagini to do the deed!!!
Why, oh why, after just explaining his reasons for killing Snape - so that he, Voldemort, will personally become the Master of the Elder Wand - would the dark lord then turn around and use Nagini, or ANY proxy, to do the deed for him? Risking mastery of that wand?
And why not a curse that kills Snape instantly? Like *every other murder* that has preceded this scene in the book?
Answer - because Harry needed to sneak up and grab Snape's memories. So Rowling just needed to write it this way. No character-based reasons. No plot-based reasons. Just 'because otherwise the plot wouldn't go where I need it to go' reasons.
Horrible. Just a horrible, horrible book.
She does this instead of other things she might have donelike stop the bleeding or treat his snake bites. Things we know she did at other times in the story.
Hermione *would* have tried to save Snape, I'm sure, were it not for Rowling telling her that she, like Riddle, had to act out of character in order to try and hold up the plot.
Got to say again, I love your 'DVD Extra' twist on the Elder Wand mastery, so clever!!
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Date: 2009-12-15 09:58 am (UTC)Voldemort coldly levitates the cage away from Snape, who falls to the floor, bleeding from his wounds. He leaves the room with the snake floating after him.
One of the most STUPID and CONTRIVED scenes in the entire book. In EVERY OTHER PASSAGE where Riddle has killed someone it's been via a 'flash of green light'. The housekeeper and her children - green light. Grindlewald - green light. The goblin - green light.
But here? Why, Voldemort not only DOESN'T use the instantly-kills-him-dead curse, he also gets Nagini to do the deed!!!
Why, oh why, after just explaining his reasons for killing Snape - so that he, Voldemort, will personally become the Master of the Elder Wand - would the dark lord then turn around and use Nagini, or ANY proxy, to do the deed for him? Risking mastery of that wand?
And why not a curse that kills Snape instantly? Like *every other murder* that has preceded this scene in the book?
Answer - because Harry needed to sneak up and grab Snape's memories. So Rowling just needed to write it this way. No character-based reasons. No plot-based reasons. Just 'because otherwise the plot wouldn't go where I need it to go' reasons.
Horrible. Just a horrible, horrible book.
She does this instead of other things she might have donelike stop the bleeding or treat his snake bites. Things we know she did at other times in the story.
Hermione *would* have tried to save Snape, I'm sure, were it not for Rowling telling her that she, like Riddle, had to act out of character in order to try and hold up the plot.
Got to say again, I love your 'DVD Extra' twist on the Elder Wand mastery, so clever!!