What's Snape got to do with it?

[mimbeltonia]

No: HPFGUIDX 139588

Mimbeltonia butting in again, with an old focus on what seems to be 
the main subject still:

Is Snape good or evil, sexy or disgusting, faithful or deceiving... I 
don't really have much of an issue with that. He is an interesting 
and complex character, he is not supposed from the author's point of 
view to be a pleasant fellow, but may or may not have good intentions 
in the end. BUT: Where Snape stands at the end of HBP is to me mainly 
interesting from the Dumbledore angle: Could Dumbledore be so stupid? 
Could the main moral of  book 6 be "do not trust to well and to 
easily" or "old men make mistakes"?

To me, Dumbledore behaves much like he knows he is soon going to die. 
Uncharacteristically he presents his point of view, politely but 
firmly, to the Dursleys. He keeps repeating that he himself can be 
sacrificed, but Harry is too valuable.

I believe Dumbledore does not wish for Snape to have to kill him, but 
that he even less wants Malfoy to have to do it. If Dumbledore is 
killed destroying a horcrux all the better, he seems to think - 
nobody will have to taint themselves with performing the avada 
kedavra. 

In my opinion Dumbledore is not faultless, and does make mistakes as 
he himself admits. But, getting himself and thereby all his followers 
duped by Snape is too much for me to accept. He can in my opinion 
make good and bad choices, but I don't think it lies within his role 
in the books to not be the one in charge. And begging for his life 
before being killed by someone he trusted through and through... No, 
to me that is to much of a degradation. 

Let Snape be whoever he is, I am sure that Dumbledore controlled him 
either way.


-mimbeltonia