Dumbledore’s flawed plan

[eggplant107]

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Please ignore my previous message, it was sent in error 

In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" Wrote

> Dumbledore *sacrificing* his life 
> is completely in character for me. 

But a pointless sacrifice was not in character and Dumbledore's death
accomplished nothing, in fact it was a disaster because now the most
powerful weapon the good guys had (with the possible exception of
Harry) is gone. If Dumbledore did have some secret grand master plan
cooked up with Snape I think it is very safe to say that things did
not go as expected. I do not believe that having a gang of Death
Eaters and a homicidal werewolf who likes to attack kids enter the
castle while Dumbledore was away was part of the plan.

I also do not think letting Harry watch as Snape killed Dumbledore
without telling Harry it was what Dumbledore wanted could have
possibly been part of the plan. In book 5 Dumbledore blundered in not
telling Harry earlier about the prophecy and a good man died as a
result, I don't believe he would make the same mistake and keep Harry
in the dark again. He must have known if he saw his Headmaster
murdered Harry would spend the rest of his life if need be to hunt
down and kill the murderer, he might even make getting Snape a greater
priority than killing Voldemort.  It seems to me it would have been
prudent to say to Harry "Oh by the way, Professor Snape is going to
kill me with an unforgivable curse but don't worry, I asked him to do
it". Dumbledore told Harry nothing of the sort so we can conclude that
Snape's actions were not part of the plan and thus Snape is just what
he seems to be, evil.

Eggplant