Snape Kills Dumbledore (2005)

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“Snape Kills Dumbledore” began sometime in mid-July of 2005. Around then, the 6th Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) was being released and it was mentioned that one of the main characters would not survive. When it was revealed it was Dumbledore, it quickly spread across the internet. It was primarily featured ytmnd.com with many variations.

A video soon emerged of a person crashing Harry Potter release parties outside of several bookstores. This fueled the meme’s explosive growth and the dialogue was used for various other sites.

The spoiler “Snape kills Dumbledore” was also depicted using various TV clips, video game FMVs, and movie clips.

Page 606 Variety
The page 606 fad involved altering the page where the spoiler was mentioned (page 606 of "Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince). Various other fads would be shown in the form of the writing seen on page 606. The music of choice was Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy”.

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s0apscum
Jul 18, 2009 at 03:57AM UTC , s0apscum wrote:

In honor of the recent “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” theatrical debut. :)

Griff McConal
Jul 18, 2009 at 04:07AM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

deadpool

Richie McNuggets
Jul 18, 2009 at 05:32AM UTC , Richie McNuggets wrote:

this is meme…probably.
its used as a joke when someone makes a spoiler.
theres that video of the dude doing the driveby with a megaphone.
and on wow people do the “harry potter and the [Linked Item]”

Pterodactyl
Jul 18, 2009 at 06:59PM UTC , Pterodactyl wrote:

I enjoyed that scene, cause I thought, “J.K Rowling is going to give a great reason now to believe Snape isn’t evil and actually saved some people!” And she kinda did.
But I can’t wait to see the movie, and laugh my head off at the stupidity of that scene.

ShotgunJesus
Jul 18, 2009 at 09:48PM UTC , ShotgunJesus wrote:

DEFINITELY A MEME

Chris Menning
Jul 19, 2009 at 05:38PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Maybe forced spoilers could be a meme.

And I think I saw this inserted into a pirated version of a movie once. But we definitely need links to the events mentioned in the entry.

s0apscum
Jul 19, 2009 at 07:34PM UTC , s0apscum wrote:

Will do!
(I’m “offline” today but will remedy shortly)

Taryn
Jul 20, 2009 at 03:29PM UTC , Taryn wrote:

This is most likely a meme, have seen this many times before. More in the loud form of, “DUMBLEDORE DIES LOL”.

Jamie Dubs
Jul 23, 2009 at 03:20PM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

this was definitely a pretty serious raid executed a few books back, I think mostly from /b/ and ebaums?

have seen a few of the pranking videos, will see if I can dig them up

Jamie Dubs
Jul 23, 2009 at 03:20PM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

also related: LA graffiti that said “THE DOG DIES” on that xmas dog movie.

Chris Menning
Jul 23, 2009 at 06:06PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Oh yeah! The Marley and me Spoiler was great.

Captain Blubber
Jul 23, 2009 at 08:55PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Dammit Chris, I was totally 100% planning to watch that movie.

For that I’ll ruin…. umm… Passion of the Christ…

Jesus dies.

It’s a plot twist.

farktard
Jul 24, 2009 at 03:39AM UTC , farktard wrote:

There’s also the XKCD variant on this: SNAPE KILLS TRINITY WITH ROSEBUD

Steven R.
Jul 26, 2009 at 10:35PM UTC , Steven R. wrote:

Yes, it’s a meme.
I trolled someone with this today.

Jamie Dubs
Jul 29, 2009 at 05:47AM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

Do we have any more evidence of the IRL trolling? that kind of makes this confirmed imho

spikido
Aug 19, 2009 at 07:02AM UTC , spikido wrote:

This one should be for sure… I mean the book hadn’t even come out, and someone had a flash vid spoiling it for everyone… srsly awesome… lemme find a FFXI bazaar comment of it… even that was too funny.

Jack Smack
Sep 04, 2009 at 02:19PM UTC , Jack Smack wrote:

People did the exact same thing at the release of the empire strikes back. People were yelling stuff like, “LUKE IS VADER’S SON!”, and VADER IS LUKE’S FATHER!

theddj
Oct 11, 2009 at 11:33PM UTC , theddj wrote:

http://www.threadless.com/product/844/Spoilt

i think a threadless tshirt is a sign of memedom

Griff McConal
Nov 26, 2009 at 08:00PM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

+1 work

Logan Zezima
Nov 28, 2009 at 02:35AM UTC , Logan Zezima wrote:

+1 work.

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