A Somewhat Pollyanna-ish Look at Dumbledore's Death

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 138499

I keep reading everyone else's ideas and then turning around and
interpreting the tower scene in a way that means nothing I've seen
posted quite nailed it. (I'm pretty sure I'm not poaching; apologies
if so (and kudos, as I love this take on events).)

Otherwise, I'm just being deliberately, insanely naïve on this
subject.

What if, rather than murder, euthanasia, reanimation-of-already-dead
Dumbledore, suicide, or anything else in that vein, what we see is
Dumbledore using all of his considerable power to keep himself just on
this side of alive—-UNTIL he is in free fall? (It seems to me that
Dumbledore has forcibly rallied several times already and may have to
do nothing other than release his stranglehold on the last of his life
force in order to be gone.) I don't consider it beyond the realm
of possibility that Snape's "AK" on top of the tower was
nothing more than the WW equivalent of special effects, and that
Dumbledore actually did the levitating, etc., himself.

Look at it this way:  the time Dumbledore spent talking with Draco has
moved him past the "window of opportunity" for efficacious treatment,
and he knows it. So Dumbledore pleads with Snape via Legilimency to
help him to make the inevitable serve the greater good with a bit of
theatre. (Snape's expression of hatred and revulsion could be
attributed to many things, including finally finding himself in a role
he is unable to play with aplomb.) This would let Harry and Draco both
off the hook for their parts in Dumbledore's demise (from their
perspectives, and a very Dumbledore-ian thing to do, IMO) as well as
cementing Snape's position with the DE and possibly making Voldemort
happy enough with the outcome to refrain from killing Draco or rubbing
Snape's nose in his own initiative. The terms of the Unbreakable Vow
may be satisfied because Snape "kills" Dumbledore by doing the
thing which will enable him to feel he can turn loose of the last
little bit of life remaining to him. (This is the weakest part of my
theory; so I'm leaning towards Snape's having engineered a hollow
Unbreakable Vow that really wasn't, but had to be acted out to
maintain his cover.)

Am I original, naive, or hopelessly deluded? Two out of three?

Sandy aka msbeadsley, who, although she needs to finish re-reading OoP
and then get through HBP a third time, is almost caught up with posts
instead