Re: Dumbledore’s spy at Spinner’s End

[tylerswaxlion]

No: HPFGUIDX 132980

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kempermentor" 
<kempermentor at y...> wrote:
Kemper:
Perhaps I don't want to believe that Dumbledore is really dead or 
that Snape is evil.  But I think I want to believe that Dumbledore's 
greatest strength is giving others a second chance: that this 
beautiful quality is not a `weakness'.

Tyler:
I don't want Love to be a 'fatal' or 'tragic' flaw either, and all 
of you are making me believe that maybe Snape isn't ESE! after all, 
but have you considered the following possibility for the 'pleading'?

Dumbledore pleads not for his life, knowing that there are worse 
things than death, but for Snape not to destroy his own soul.

We know that murder causes one's soul to be damaged or split.

Dumbledore was trying to protect Draco from committing murder more 
for the harm it would cause Draco than from his own fear of death.  
I don't think DD feared death.

But couldn't he have been trying to do the same for Snape?

DD's pleading could have been:

Severus, please, don't destroy yourself!  You have the ability for 
such good inside.  Don't throw it away!

Not pleading for his life, but for SNAPE's soul.  DD is still wrong 
in this situation, he's still made a "huger" mistake, but it strikes 
me as deeper and nobler that he'd die for Love and for trusting in 
the good of others than if he just kills himself to keep Snape in 
Voldemort's graces.  A really crappy plan unless DD was doomed 
anyway.

AK is an Unforgivable, and casting it successfully will damage 
Snape's soul.  And for someone who was so fond of the Dark Arts, any 
soul damage could be extremely dangerous.