[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore and Gandalf... COME ON HE IS NOT DEAD! not for long! ;)

[Sherry Gomes]

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Nevertheless, here is another question for you guys. Don't you think 
that we are not giving Dumbledore the credit he disserves? For 
example, maybe he was right about Snape, maybe just maybe 
Dumbledore´s down fall was Snape´s promise to protect Malfoy.

I mean, think about it! Snape had to make that promise, or else, the 
death eaters would know he was really on Dumbledore´s side. Not with 
standing, Snape could have died if Malfoy did not complete the task; 
moreover, perhaps Snape knew something that we did not. For instance, 
that Dumbledore was already dying, his hand was rotting, and that he, 
Snape, was a better of a use, for Harry, alive than Dumbledore dead. 
Or that he and Dumbledore had talked about something like the 
encounter they had was going to happen, and they planed it, hence it 
was all a hoax. That could explain why Dumbledore froze Harry, so 
that he would not ruin the performance that was going to take place. 

Sincerely,
Dilia

Sherry now:

If Dumbledore and Snape had some goofy plan, or even a serious plan, and if
Snape  indeed is the one who could better protect Harry, why didn't anyone
think to tell Harry before it all happened?  i just don't believe it.  It
would make Dumbledore into a pretty evil wizard himself, in my opinion, to
have pulled something like that.  As for Snape's vow, if breaking his vow
meant his death and keeping his vow meant killing the one person who had
believed in him and trusted him and probably loved him, then, well, to
paraphrase Sirius Black in POA, He should have died rather than murder
Dumbledore.  There's nothing that can justify that act to me.  

Also if Dumbledore is still alive, then what does that say about JKR's oft
and vehemently repeated statements that the dead don't come back?

Harry isn't going to listen to anything Snape may have to say in future.  He
blames Snape for his parents deaths as well as Dumbledore's now.  He's
probably out for Snape's blood as much as he is out for Voldemort's.  A
foolish plan, not to prepare the one most affected in the aftermath.

I don't want Dumbledore to be dead, and I didn't want Snape to be ESE, tried
to believe in whatever it was Dumbledore believed.  But his murder of
Dumbledore just made all the conflict about him come together in my mind to
the conclusion that we should have known all along that he was evil.  The
clues were always there, but we believed in Dumbledore and found the
conflicted character of Snape very interesting.  We got hoodwinked.  

sherry