What exactly is the AK? / Snape killing Dumbledore

[Ann Marie]

No: HPFGUIDX 143958

> Literature_Caro wrote:
> > In book four the dead Riddles are all
> > described to have the expression of
> > utmost terror on their faces. This was 
> > of course due to the AK.
> 
> CrypticAmoeba <crypticamoeba at gmail.com> wrote:
> This may or may not be true.  Voldemort could
> have be "played with" the Riddle household 
> before their killing them. The look of terror 
> may be from other events.  If Dumbledore was at 
> peace with the events around him and how they 
> were playing out it would make sense that he 
> was at peace with his death.  This also adds a 
> little circumstantial proof for DDM!Snape as 
> this only works if Dumbledore was expecting to 
> die.
  
 
As being new and this being my first post, I'm
not sure if this has been hit upon before, so
please forgive me if I'm repeating someone.

I think, under the circumstances, Dumbledore
expected to die, there were too many Deatheaters
surrounding him, and he was too weak to properly
defend himself.

And maybe because of this, and because it was
Snape who actually did the deed, Dumbledore
became at peace. 

When I first read that passage, I hated Snape
with all the emotions I could spare a fictitious
character, but then after re-reading it and
actually sitting down and thinking about it, I
came to this conclusion. What if Snape killed
Dumbledore to save Draco from a life of a true
Deatheater? From what we know of Draco, he's a
bully, mostly when his cronies are around. But
we've seen just how much of a coward he can be
also.

Now, it was made clear that Draco was to kill
Dumbledore, and no other Deatheater would, they
kept egging him on...forcing him too. Now
Dumbledore knew that Draco didn't have the heart
of a murderer. You can feel his inner struggle
all during that scene. I think Snape killed
Dumbledore to save Draco from losing his soul to
the darkness of Voldemort.

Does any of that make sense? What do others
think?

Ann Marie

 
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