Dumbledore's pleading

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 141460

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
>> 
>Alla:
> 
> 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,
> 
Renee:

But Alla, can't you envisage a situation where the soul is hurt 
anyway, whatever happens? If Snape doesn't fulfil the UV and the 
result is that Draco is killed by the DEs or Voldemort, do you think 
he'd arrive in the hereafter with an unscathed soul, just because he 
hasn't actively killed? He'll have failed, even betrayed Narcissa and 
Draco (and I won't buy the argument that this doesn't matter because 
they're DEs), and Draco's death will hurt his soul no less than 
Dumbledore's, because this death can be laid at his door. (Not to 
mention that Harry might die, too.)

Snape's soul is tainted whatever he does or omits. And if Dumbledore 
is aware of the UV, he knows this. So he tries to limit the damage to 
other people than Snape. 

Renée