Dumbledore's After Death Strategy

[Bhavna ( Impact Management, Mumbai )]

No: HPFGUIDX 134744

Just thinking about DD's death and trying to make sense of him pleading Snape.

I can not imagine DD pleading anyone to do anything much less plead someone evil. Even when DM threatens DD that he is at his mercy ...DD replies that it is DM who is at his mercy. So I definitely can not imagine him pleading Snape to spare his life - I would think he would much rather die than plead with someone for his life - hes definitely above that!
 
I think DD knew that  Snape's cover was much more important than his own life at that stage. Knowing Riddle as well as he did - DD predicted that this is the best anyone who wants to be trusted unquestioningly by LV has to do - kill 'the Only One He Ever Feared' . Snape killing DD would lead to LV's undoubted trust and belief in Snape which Snape could then use to find out LVs secrets - most importantly the location of the Horcruxes! After all it seems quite unreasonable that HP would go gallavanting around the world himself looking for them and there is really no one else left who can tell him where to start looking - that is of course until HP figures out who RAB is and anyways even RAB is supposedly dead and cant help him much.

As put forth by others in this yahoo group at different times in different posts before - there are 2 ways for HP to believe Snape - DD's portrait and Fawkes. Unless of course DD has saved the memory wherein he orders Snape to kill him if need be and HP inherits the Penseive and the memory - left intentionally for him by DD in his will. But I dont know how much HP will believe in a memory seeing that they can easily be tampered with.

Any more thoughts on this?

Regards
Bhavna
India



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