Dumbledore's pleading (longish)

[lindseyharrisst]

No: HPFGUIDX 141465

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" <R.Vink2 at c...> wrote:

"So, what DD requests from Snape is to become an "accomplice" to 
self-
sacrifice."
I can't agree more Renee! I find it impossible to accept that DD 
begged for his life. After all, if Snape was intent on murdering him 
it would be utterly pointless to do so and would create a power 
imbalance at the moment of death that DD would not countenance if 
Snape really was the enemy. As he has already said by this point in 
the book, there are worse things than death (and one of them is 
begging for mercy from an evil man). 

The only thing I would argue with, is that DD must have known about 
the unbreakable vow. If he knew that Malfoy was attempting to kill 
him and that the penalty for his failure would be death then it 
would not take a lot for him to realise that another man would be 
sent to finish the job. It may well be Snape and there would have 
been a serious risk that it would have to be done in public, or at 
least the presence of another DE, as a test. (I don't think 
Voldemort trusts anyone, or ever has). It was therefore natural that 
DD would plan for this and expain to Snape what would be required of 
him. 

The Vow was undoubtedly a mistake - I think Snape was trapped 
through Bella's derisive suspiscion and Narcissa's desperation into 
agreeing. It was a mixture of paranoia and vanity that made him do 
it and I can't see him admitting to that, EVER. It was also 
unnecessary if DD had already come to the conlusions above, though I 
see that it might contribute to his inner guilt. 
I'm also wondering whether the soul-loss involved in murder would 
happen to Snape now...

Snapesangel x