Dumbledore's pleas

[M. Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 142409


piki1902 wrote: Does anyone think there is any significance to Dumbledore's pleas/crying while Harry is making him drink the poison before getting the horcrux at the lake? Especially what he is saying "...don't kill them..." 

Luckdragon wrote: I don't think there is any significance to what DD was saying. I think the potion DD drank was meant to place the drinker in a nightmarish state in order to prevent them finishing their task. It had an opposite effect of the mirror of erised in that the potion caused the consumer to see their worst fears.


CH3ed adds: Yep, or the potion caused DD to relive some horrific experiences in his or the potion-brewer's past. I note that even when DD was suffering immensely (DD wouldn't moan for any minor aches and pains) he was still asking to be killed or hurt in the place of others. That is a big contradiction to Harry's interpretation of DD's plea to Snape on the Tower. Harry thinks DD pled for mercy for his own life, while I suspect he was pleaing for Snape to save Malfoy (from becoming a murderer or be murdered by LV or DE's) and Harry and the rest of the students (from the DE's) and Snape himself (from the UV) by killing DD.

CH3ed