The cave potion and soul pieces (Re: OFH! Snape again )

[Leposava Toseski]

No: HPFGUIDX 141058

Saraquel:
> > That if the Ring HSP (horcrux soul part)had already posessed DD, 
> > then Snape would know that and DD's pleading on the tower makes 
> > complete sense, "I'm possessed by the horcrux we went after 
> > tonight, you must kill me in this situation."  Snape would have
> > known that DD was going after a horcrux IMO, as he would have
> > forewarned Snape to be ready.

Lipa:
This is fairly similar to what I have been thinking.
Dumbledore was asking to be killed, quickly.
My guess is that the curse from the ring and/or the 
potion/water combination from the cave were finishing him
in a horrible way, dehumanizing him
(Inferi, Dementors, Ghosts, ... come to mind)
and only timely death could save him from destiny
which he considered worse than death.

Dumbledore did talk about Voldemort's excessive fear of death
as if it were the worst thing to happen to a person (which
it wasn't). 

Also, I cannot imagine DD begging for his life.

===I have joined this group looking for exactly this kind of
conversation. I am 52 years old and very new to Harry Potter.
I read all six books for the first time this summer. I am glad
that I did not have to live through even wilder guesses before
HBP was published. Waiting for the seventh book is bad enough.

Lipa