It's over, Snape is evil/Ruthless Dumbledore?

[Cat]

No: HPFGUIDX 138558

Colebiancardi: <snip>
> So, without bringing Snape into the argument, what is so 
> unbelievable about DD asking to die for the greater good 
> of the Order? 
 
Alla:
> That is  PRECISELY what is not believable to me. I believe that 
> JKR hits us very strongly with "murder hurts the soul" metaphor 
> and that is why it is not believable to me (only my opinion of 
> course) that "epitome of goodness" would ask anybody to hurt 
> their soul for any purpose.
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The Barmaid now:
> I guess that depends on how you define murder.  I could never 
> equate killing someone who has asked you, maybe even ordered you, 
> to do it -- someone who is most likely dieing anyway -- with the 
> sort of cold blooded murders we know Tom Riddle has committed.  
> How could these result in the same sort of damage to a soul?  I 
> honestly would not call what it seems to me Snape did "murder."  


Cat:
What if what Dumbledore asked was not "kill me" but "release me"?  
We know that DD was very badly hurt with finding the first horcrux.  
We know that there is a potion to "stopper death."  While I know DD does not fear death and thinks of it as the final adventure, he is also fighting a war and knows Harry isn't ready.  Perhaps DD has 
bought some time.   
 
Now the potion in the basin has produced some interesting effects, which we have been speculating about.  DD has been seeing/feeling something. What if the potion brings death by making the victim 
feel everything embarrassing/painful in the people that have tried 
to come before? He knows he cannot die, but the emotional pain of 
the potion is interferring with him.  That may be why he initially 
sent Harry for Snape, he knew he was goiing to ask to be released. 
He would have time to explain to Harry what he was doing. When 
faced with Draco, the Death Eaters, he froze Harry for his 
protection and so he would not interfere. When finally Snape did arrive, he asked Snape to do what was initially planned and he at 
that time did it to save Draco.


Cat

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