Twist JKR?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 141713

  
> Alla:
> 
> Hee! Well, I am thinking that such reason exists, but I think it 
> could be perfectly in character that it does not, that as I said 
> above that Dumbledore would have trusted Snape if he just came back 
> and said " Oh, Headmaster, I am SO sorry! Please forgive me!"
> 
> So, who knows, maybe there is no explanation coming than the one 
> which we got.
> 
> JMO,
> Alla
 
Hickengruendler:

I still think it would make Dumbledore look like a fool, who deserved 
what he got.

To bring up an example that I already mentioned at another place. It 
is the second World war and you are Franklin D. Roosevelt or Winston 
Churchill. Suddenly, Eichmann or Goebbels come into your office or 
met you at another place, and told you how sorry they are and that 
they really regretted what they did, and if they might join your 
side, they could be valuable spies. Would you believe him just like 
that, because you believe in the good in people? I don't think any of 
us would. Most people might consider their offers, but they wouldn't 
trust them just like that. And if you do, than you are simply not in 
the position to be a leader in a war. And that's what Dumbledore was 
at least two times (three if we include the Grindelwald war, but we 
don't know if he realy was a leader then), in spite of all the other 
more peaceful qualities he embodies. Therefore the idea that 
Dumbledore believed Snape on such a flimsy evidence, together with 
the possibility that the man, who said several times that death is 
nothing to fear, would beg for his life, would simply destroy the 
Dumbledore character for me.

I realize that Dumbledore begging for someone else to kill him has 
it's problems as well, and that it very well might destroy 
Dumbledore's character for some other readers. *g* But *I* definitely 
prefer it to fool Dumbledore, but only given the right circumstances, 
for example that there was no chance for DD to get out of this 
situation alive, and the fact that Snape had to do it, because 
otherwise the Order would have lost two members instead of one.

Hickengruendler, who starts to think, that JKR might have included 
Dumbledore's plea, to give the readers a hint, that this is not as it 
seems on first glance, because it is that OOC for Dumbledore to beg 
for his life