Another possible reason Snape killed DD

[gailelisabeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 135306

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florence" <oiboyz at h...> wrote:
> Cool idea that drinking the potion put the Horcrux into Dumbledore! 
>...But I agree with dan that deliberately drinking it just to get rid 
of one horcrux seems too high a price to pay.

Good point -- but I don't believe that DD drank it *knowing* the 
Horcrux was in it. It may not have been the Horcrux, but there was 
something terribly wrong with Dumbledore, and with the "kill me" quote 
and his insistence on Harry fetching Snape to the Tower, I feel DD must 
have had some reason to *want* Snape to kill him.  

> ..., or moving Snape far into LV's good graces....could be worth more 
> than DD's life and give the Order a better chance of defeating LV.

Possible. But DD dying just to make Snape look good to LV sounds like a 
bit of a stretch.  And his pleading with Snape ("Please..") sounds more 
like a man who knows something is very wrong with him. 

I agree with previous posters that DD's pleading, and the long look 
that passed between him and Snape, and the revulsion on Snape's face 
(cc Harry's revulsion when he has to feed DD the potion) -- and above 
all, Snape's reaction to Harry calling him a coward, all point to DD's 
having wanted/ordered Snape to kill him.  And that it may have been the 
hardest thing Snape ever did.

I can't believe we won't know for sure for two years!  

Gail


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