Dumbledore's master plan

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 138300

Larry now:
Dumbledore states clearly that to kill, to take a life
unjustifiably, forever splits the soul; damaging or
destroying it irrepairably and irretrievably. I cannot
understand how we can have gotten to know Dumbledore
as we have and believe for a second that he would
sacrifice a human soul for any reason. Let alone for
so craven a thing as the placement of a spy.

Dumbledore has also said that Voldemort trusts no one,
there is no inner circle. Voldemort is the only chess
master here, it is his utterly ruthless willingness to
sacrifice any one or anything to get what he wants
that marks him as the Dark Lord. For Dumbledore to
sacrifice a soul, any soul, would be to have him use
the means of the enemy, putting him on the road to
becoming the enemy.

Remember, it is our choices that makes us who we are.
And if we choose to act as the Dark Lord, we will
become as the Dark Lord. A choice Dumbledore would
never make, and a path he would never follow.


vmonte:
Nice post Larry, I completely agree. It would not be in Dumbledore's 
character to ask this of Snape. Dumbledore's been trying to keep 
Snape away from the DADA position for years because of his fear that 
it would tempt Snape back to the dark side. (Snape must have really 
forced Dumbledore's (dead) hand to get the DADA position in the last 
book--BTW.)  

Voldemort is ruthless and would ask anything from his DEs including 
having them cut off their own arm. Dumbledore would never ask Snape 
to cause more damage to his soul. It just doesn't make sense to me.
And I agree that this would make him as bad as Voldemort.

Vivian