Dumbledore's Grand Plan

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 135428

Phoenixmum wrote:

> What better way to place trusted Snape in a position to protect 
> Harry than to give LV the ultimate reason to trust Snape: killing 
> the feared rival, DD.  I interpret the overheard argument between
> DD and Snape in the forest to be about DD insisting that maintaining 
> Snape's cover is essential, and that Snape must do anything, even 
> kill DD, to do so, and Snape resisting. After drinking the
> potion in the cave, DD insists on getting to Snape, and no one 
> else.  Snape can either save DD from the effect of the potion or, if 
> the DD's death is inevitable, Snape will have the opportunity to
> appear to "kill" DD.


A friend of mine proposed a similar theory about Dumbledore's death,
with one twist: that he might already be dying. She suggested that the
curse on the ring, which injured his right hand, was actually terminal. 

In this theory, DD chose to sacrifice his life at a time and in a way
that would hurt Voldemort's plan as much as possible. During the
argument in the forest, he insisted that Snape *must* kill him if and
when he decided it was necessary. He may well have made Snape promise
or swear that he would obey, as he did Harry, and he was reminding
Snape of that when he said "Severus" on the rooftop.

Amontillada