DD master plan?

[jackiestrey]

No: HPFGUIDX 133368

Jacquelyn from Minnesota here and this is my first post.  There are 
spoiler's in this, but I am pretty sure that most people have read 
the book by now. However, 
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Upon completion of the sixth book, many things about Snape's 
attitude throughout the book and particularily at the end made me a 
little suspicious. For example: 

1) Snape's strange meetins with Narcissa and Belatrix, was it mearly 
a ploy to help his undercover work?  Did he really just make the 
Unbreakable Vow in order to convince Bella? Or, is Snape really bad?

2) Snape's strange attitude regarding Malfoy and his apparent lack 
of confidence.  I was intrigued by this because it seems that what 
Snape really did not want to do was drive Draco away, which would 
explain his softness.

3) And of course, the apparent killing of DD, which I belive is real 
(more on that later).

Up until this book I was had complete faith that Snape was good 
because DD trusted him, and my mind hasn't changed.  Snape's 
behavior doesn't exactly merit a medal or anything, but I do think 
that there is some greater cause for Snape in the next book. I 
believe that DD had been planning his death all along.  In order to 
keep a memeber of the Order as a spy, something drastic needed to 
take place in order for the Death Eaters and Voldemort to trust that 
Snape really had chosen a side.  What better convincer is there than 
the killing of one of the two people that Voldemort hates the most?  
I also took the argument in the forest as DD's request and reminder 
of the things that Snape needed to do, which was of course killing 
him.  And the pleading that DD does right before he is killed is a 
sure sign that DD was reminding Snape of his duties.  It was not a 
pleading for his life, but for his death.  I also believe that DD's 
death signifies something more important. 

If Harry had DD there to hold his hand throughout the next book, he 
would never grow up.  DD would always be there to fix everything and 
I believe that JK Rowling needed some kind of maturity to take place 
in Harry before we depart.  I believe that if Harry was ever going 
to fulfill the profecy, once and for all killing Voldmort, than DD 
needed to be out of the picture.  That is why I think he is actually 
dead. 

Sirius, on the other hand, did not die with the finality that DD 
did.  In DD's death, there is closure.  Harry feels the lose and 
understands the weight that death holds over a person, and I 
personally don't believe that Harry really felt that with Sirius.  
Maybe I am just too much of a Sirius Black fan to let him die, but I 
cannot find as much actual proof (like the ending of the spell on 
Harry, the changing of offices, DD's portrait on the wall, etc.) in 
the death of Sirius.

Jacquelyn