A Cold Equation (was Re: The Trial Of Severus Snape)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 141338

sherry:
 
> No.  Well, i can't get the hypotheticals.  We don't know, and
neither did Snape, that Dumbledore was for sure dying.  I just see
Dumbledore as an old man, still incredibly powerful but sick.  He
should have been rescued not betrayed and murdered.

houyhnhnm:

If Dumbledore was "sick" and in need of rescuing, then we can take it
as a given that he was not going to survive against four Death Eaters.
 He couldn't even stand.  He was "for sure" dying. To argue otherwise
is sophistical.

As for Snape not dying from breaking the UV, the only canonical
information about the operation of UVs is Ron's statement.
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"... What happens if you break it, then?"
"You die," Ron said simply.
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That's pretty straightforward.

You are free to write your own fanfiction and invent your own
explanation for the working of the UV, but it is not really fair to
use your invention as the premise of an argument and call it "canonical".