Dumbledore's pleading

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Jen:

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> This isn't as exciting as legilimency, yet in a way is more 
> powerful. That somehow these two men, from such very different 
> backgrounds, beliefs, and agendas could look at each other in that 
> moment and understand each other so completely, as well as know 
> beyond a shadow of a doubt what needed to happen....now *that* 
would 
> be something, to me anyway.


Alla:

This was beaitiful and poignant, Jen. But then I think I am back to 
the question Lupinlore raised earlier. If indeed Dumbledore and 
Snape 
understood each other so completely why then Dumbledore needs to 
plead 
at all? I mean in this scenario, Snape knows what needs to be done, 
right? he can figure out that Dumbledore wants to sacrifice himself 
and is eager to do it right away. Why plead then?

I personally LOVE your second suggestion that if Snape decides to 
kill 
Dumbledore because he betrays him ( or as I like to think because of 
selfish desire to survive), Dumbledore still thinks that Snape has 
some good in him enough to save the kids, but despite me loving 
Zgirnius 
description of  the legilimency as I said upthread, I don't buy DD 
asking Snape to kill him in the first place.

Self-sacrifice - YES,absolutely, but not tagging Snape along so to 
speak, JMO, of course.

DD sacrificing himself for kids is perfectly IC for DD as I read 
him, 
Dumbledore sacrificing Snape is something I cannot see no matter how 
hard I try ( that killing hurts the soul stops me)

JMO of course,

Alla.