Dumbledore's master plan

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 138361



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.)
 
Julie says: 
If there's anyone in HP who couldn't be forced to do something he
really didn't want to do, or that didn't serve some sort of higher
purpose, it's Albus Dumbledore. How could Snape have possibly
forced Dumbledore into giving him the DADA position?  Refused
to save DD from the ring Horcrux unless DD gave him the  DADA
position in return? If Snape had done something that  self-serving,
I can't see Dumbledore going on and on about trusting Snape so
completely. Nor can I see Snape being that stupid, when he knows
full well the position is cursed. 



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
 

Julie says:
The key word Dumbledore used about killing damaging the  soul
was taking a life UNJUSTIFIABLY. If Dumbledore asked Snape to
kill him for a justifiable reason--he was already as good as dead, 
and his death would allow Severus to infiltrate the Death Eaters
and pave the way for Voldemort's defeat--then he wouldn't be 
asking Snape to damage to his soul even further than it already
may be. 
 
I have to wonder if JKR wrote the part about murder damaging
the soul as carefully as she wrote the prophecy, deliberately
inserting the adverb "unjustifiably." Though it's not really a  big
revelation, given the Aurors use Unforgivable curses justifiably
to defeat Death Eaters, and presumably their souls are safe.
 
Julie 


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