TBAY: Deathwish!Dumbledore, Spy!Snape, and Preoccupied!Hagrid

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 47067

Looking around the room, Melody got kind of tired waiting for Abigail
to return.  Feeling her legs fall asleep, she got up and stretched.
"Has been a fun night so far," she thought to herself.  "But where is
Grey and Pip?  They have to be here somewhere?"

Melody scooped up her water glass and walked back into the main room
and scanned the crowd.  She found Grey talking intently with Pippin,
but their conversation seemed a little too gruesome for Melody to
interrupt at this hour.  Turning her head back towards the bar, she
was surprised to see half of Pip standing there.  Seems Pip had draped
the invisibility cloak over her shoulder to keep it clean from the
floor.  Abigail and her were deep in conversation, so Melody paused
and smiled knowing Pip was ironing out all the wrinkles Melody had
forgotten.

Edging closer to listen, Melody overheard Pip say:

> "You see, when I said that the route back in for Snape is providing
> Dumbledore's head on a platter, I was only half joking. I don't
> think Dumbledore is actually going to ask Snape to kill him. But I
> do think he might well send Snape back to Voldemort (and this may be
> Book 6 rather than Book 5 ? Snape's current mission might have
> nothing to do with going back to Voldemort), with some really juicy
> information about some weakness of Dumbledore's. For example, that
> Dumbledore is really atrocious at fighting balrogs, and has never
> mastered the levitation charm that protects you when you fall off
> bridges.

That idea actually seems workable in Melody's mind.  Not that she
wanted it to happen, but based on what Dumbledore has already done in
pursuit to remove Voldemort from being a threat, it is a real possibility.

Then another thought popped in Melody's head, and she just had to pass
it by Pip.  Striding forward, Melody came up to Abigail and Pip and
tapped Pip on the shoulder.

"Hey," she greeted.

"Hi, Mel.  Got bored sitting back there?" Pip asked picking up her tea
pint again.

"More got a little stiff, hey I could not help, well ok I could, but I
overheard you saying how Snape and Dumbledore could be planning to
plant information about Dumbledore in Voldemort's came.  A very spy
thing to do by the way." Melody said.

"Yes I agree," Pip smiled.

"So I was thinking about how Hagrid would take Dumbledore doing this.
 I really do not think Dumbledore would tell him about it.  Hagrid
would be a mess and *completely* useless.  Dumbledore knows this, so
what did he do?  He set Hagrid off to find his long lost mother with
the very woman Hagrid has a deep crush on.  Seems Dumbledore wants to
keep Hagrid's mind, heart, and hands busy.  So with Hagrid
preoccupied, Dumbledore can work with Snape to get Voldemort within a
close radius of Dumbledore which could *never* happen otherwise."

Pip thought a minute on the idea and added, "And Dumbledore also knows
that Hagrid is *extremely* defense and protective of him.  He even
said he would trust Hagrid with his life, so if Dumbledore wants to
possibly put his life in jeopardy, then he has to remove the Hagrid
factor.  Hmmm, interesting."

Abigail was nursing her Pina Colada quietly listening.  "But wouldn't
Hagrid be back for his duties as teacher and groundskeeper by then?"

"Ooo, good point," Melody said.  "But if Hagrid has a girlfriend then
his free time is quite busy.  What with flying between France and
England and all.  Then there is the getting to know your mother better
part.  And Dumbledore could make sure Hagrid has an especially
menacing new pet to keep him busy as well and happy.  Hagrid would be
completely clueless to the whole Snape and Dumbledore plan.  So
really, I think Dumbledore has already put into the works a 'Keep
Hagrid away from the truth of my possible death' plan."

Tipping her water glass to Pip, "I think you are on to something."
Then another light went off in Melody's head (you would think the bar
smoke would cloud your mind).  "Hey, wait.  Hagrid's death!"

Pip's eyes got big.  "Yeah, Dumbledore keeps all the spy games from
Hagrid, so Hagrid would not know the plans and the need of
Dumbledore's life in jeopardy.  So *when* Hagrid finds out, he would
immediately run to either stop Dumbledore and put his own life before
Dumbledore's."

Melody was positively bouncing.  "So Hagrid dies a hero's death
redeemed in the WW.  An era ends.  Harry is proud of his friend but
mourns his loss.  It is tragic for JKR and could be awful to write.
Dumbledore lives another book, but still can die now without the
protection of Hagrid getting in the way.  It all could work."


Melody