Malice and Ulterior Motives

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 138769

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> Jen: I'm really torn on this one. Dumbledore proved in OOTP that he 
> believes the good of the community outweighs any one individual, 
> including himself. I really believe Dumbledore trusted Snape to do 
> the right thing until the very end: Save Draco, get the DE's and 
> Fenrir the hell away from Hogwarts, and keep Harry from harm. Those 
> three things would be more important to Dumbledore than his own 
life.
> 
> *But*, the big but, DD has much reverence for the power of love and 
> an untarnished soul. You can't enjoy the next great adventure 
> without them, I'd imagine. So no, I don't believe DD was pleading 
> with Snape to AK him. And that's where I always run into a brick 
> wall<g>. 
> 

Hickengruendler:

IMO, the question for Dumbledore was, what was the lesser of the two 
evils.

Evil 1: Dumbledore allows Snape to kill him. Snape soul splits (or 
maybe it doesn't. Who knows, maybe in this case the soul remains 
intact, because Snape's intentions weren't as evil as they normally 
are when someone commits a murder). And afterwards, Snape gets the 
Death Eaters and the horrible Greyback away from Hogwarts to save 
everyone else.

Evil 2: Dumbledore does not want Snape to kill him. He dies anyway, 
either because of the Potion or because he is too weak (although 
because of the Potion) to fight the other Death Eaters. They kill 
him. Snape drops dead, because he didn't fulfill the vow. The Death 
Eaters now have their field day. First, Greyback eats Dumbledore's 
boy (and maybe Snape's as well). While doing so, the other Death 
Eaters discover the second broom and search for Harry. He can no show 
himself and can move again. He already fought them successfully at 
the end of OotP, but of course on the tower he has much less room, 
and if he doesn't manage to reach the door, it looks grim for him. So 
maybe Harry survives or maybe not. However, with Dumbledore out of 
the way, and without Snape urging them to flee. The Death Eaters 
would fight further, probably killing and injuring more students and 
teachers, maybe kidnapping Trelawney (although admittingly, this is 
speculation. But Snape knows, that she's in danger, considering that 
he was the Death Eater. who overheard her). Afterwards Voldemort or 
the DE would kill Draco, because he failed his mission, and very 
possibly Narcissa would accompany her son into the Afterlife. 
Trelawney would have been tortured to get the prophecy out of her.

In other words, the outcome would be much worse, than it was this 
way. If it was a master plan between DD and SS, than I don't think 
anyone of them was happy about it, but it was a sacrifice for the 
greater good.

Hickengruendler