NECESSITY of killing/ What would DD want?

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 141876

Alla:
> Hee, not trying to convince you or anything since we talked about 
> it many times both on list and off, just trying to explain why I 
> so don't see Dumbledore asking someone to rip their soul again.

SSSusan:
Hee back!  That's good, since I can be pretty stubborn, as you 
know! ;-)


Alla:
> Dumbledore does not say that he destroyed he Stone when he talks 
> to Harry. He says "As for the stone, it had been destroyed" - 
> PS/SS, p.297, paperback, which IMO may mean that Stone was 
> destroyed in the battle and Dumbledore had nothing to do with it.
> 
> BUT even if he did destroy the Stone, I think that "Well, Nicholas 
> and I have had a little chat, and agreed that it is all for  the 
> best" - p.297, may support  the interpretation that Flanels were 
> going to choose their great adventure soon anyways and they just 
> made their choice faster.


SSSusan:
I know we're never going to convince each other, but I can't resist 
responding to this.

You do realize when you say that this "may support the 
interpretation that Flamels were going to choose their great 
adventure soon anyways and they just made their choice faster," that 
it CLOSELY MIRRORS the argument many DDM!Snape or Things Aren't What 
They Appear on the Tower fans say, don't you?  

That is, that DD was *dying* on the Tower and knew it, that he was 
fully prepared for the next great adventure, that he wanted to die 
in such a way as to prevent Draco from murder and to get the DEs out 
of Hogwarts, but that he needed HELP to accomplish this?  That his 
pleading to Snape was for Snape to provide that help?  IOW, that he 
was choosing the great adventure (knew it was imminent), and that he 
just made the choice to get their faster? 

I recognize that this is not your position at all, but I hope you 
can also see how the Flamel situation you postulate really does 
closely match the Tower situation many HPfGUers have also put out 
there.

Just an interesting parallel, I thought. ;-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan, who is pleased to know that neither she nor 
Alla will gloat when *whichever* one of us eats her crow.