Dumbledore's pleading

[Nicolau C. Saldanha]

No: HPFGUIDX 141443


Lupinlore: 
> But this is an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Even if we 
> hypothesize that DD was dying from the potion and wanted to spare 
> Harry's feelings, there was absolutely no reason for DD to ask Snape 
> to do anything.  All DD had to do was keep his mouth shut and let the 
> DEs kill him.  Then Harry would have been blaming Fenrir, et. al., 
> not necessarily Snape.

Nicolau:
This might indeed have been DD's option if Snape had not shown up:
consistent with conon here. Given that Snape did show up, this option
is no longer available: the DEs were expecting Snape to do
*something*. Assuming for the sake of argument that DD is going to die
in 30 seconds anyway, the options are limited. DDM!Snape could not
say: "Wait just a little, he will die anyway: let him die with
dignity.": never mind the fact that this would blow his cover, trigger
the UV and keep the DE in Hogwarts a little longer: it would give away
the fact that DD and Harry knew about the horcruxes and were busy
destroying them. After all, if the DD came back saying: "We went
there, found DD, but he died of and by himself: must have been
poisoned, or something." then Voldemort would try to find out more. 

Lupinlore:
> Besides, how in the world would DD have communicated such a request?  
> Legilimency?  That would be terrible writing indeed. (...SNIP...)


I don't think so: legilimency here seems ok with me. This has been
discussed a lot already in another thread and I have nothing to add
except that I agree with the idea that it is at least  plausible that
Dumbledore passed a message to Snape on the tower using legilimency.

Nicolau