Dumbledore's death

[P and M]

No: HPFGUIDX 134648

See, here's a very perverted way to look at this love business.

When Harry and Dumbledore were seeing Riddle's memories, I wa strucj 
by how Riddle got attached to objects ... and having been abandoned, 
in some very strange way, you grow to love, but in a very obsessive 
kinda way. Riddle grew to love the Dark side, and maybe, that was a 
way to mask the desire to actually love someone--anyone--in the 
purest form imaginable.

That's what Harry had come to realize--this fight was between him, 
LV, and Harry, alone. Harry, I believe, will win this battle in one 
way: He still loves those who have been affected, although they're 
gone from his life (Sirius, his parents, now Dumbledore.) 

Now, my twist: Before I got to the conclusion, I think Snape loved 
Lily, got to James first, and, on Snape's orders, and as well as 
LV's own hatred of Muggle-borns, killed Harry's parents out of 
obsessive love and blinding jealousy. Snape was likely confronted by 
LV on his cowardice to kill the Potters--much similar to Draco's 
cowardice to kill Dumbledore, and Snape, seeing redemption on his 
part by LV, chucked Dumbledore himself. Based on Harry's visit to 
Snape's Pensieve and the memory he'd seen, as for Snape, my guess: 
his love for Lily (I forget which Harry's parents bloodline were, 
somebody remind me!) prompted him to kill her, b/c, if he couldn't 
have her, no one could, and he just couldn't bring himself to do her 
in. He loved Lily. Obsessive loved, Lily, that is. So, simply, LV 
did it, out of his hatred of Mudbloods, to be immortal--and maybe, 
to exact revenge on behalf of Snape.

I don't post that lightly; Snape's hatred of James went to Harry 
simply b/c Harry was the "lucky" by-product of what coulda been 
Snape's. And, Harry did find Snape's Potions book, too, meaning 
that, in snape's warped mind, all the more reason to hate who Harry 
is, who he came from, and what Snape possibly could have been.

The "could have been" was what Dumbledore so strongly believed in, 
but we're not gonna know, now will we?

~Maverick