The Why, What and How of Dumbledore

[wiseard]

No: HPFGUIDX 140122

Yes I have just read this book and it left a lasting impression.

So here's a current working theory to add to the rest:
1) Yes Dumbledore planned his own death in concert with Snape.
2) Yes, this means that Snape is still working for the Order as a 
double agent.
3) HOWEVER: Dumbledore has also prepared his own resurrection (more 
on this later) This 'play for the gallery' was necessary so that: 
a) Snape (as already posted) will be beyond suspicion and have 
secured a vital place in Voldermort's inner circle. That of course 
is a particularly risky game and the reason why Snape became so 
furious with Harry for calling him a coward.
Imagine Dumbledore's position: On the one hand having to placate 
Harry's suspicions of Snape, on the other having to convince Snape 
that Harry will ultimately prove worthy of all the risk and trouble 
to which he (Snape) is going.
b)So that Harry will absolutely believe him to be dead at the hands 
of Snape and with no subterfuge - that in the likely case his weak 
Occulemency skills come to be inevitably penetrated by Voldermort in 
their coming showdown it will reveal nothing untoward.

So much for WHY. So what and how has Dumbledore done it?

1) I believe Dumbledore had already visited the cave and retrieved 
the horcrux albeit at the cost of enduring a damaged hand from some 
protective spell or battle. The reason why he miraculously hits upon 
the idea that he needs to drink the contents of the  basin is 
because it is actually a potion that he has had the Half Blood 
Prince and potion master Snape prepare. By drinking it he must face 
his worst fear and death. This is also why he needed Harry's
help. 
The reward however will mean he will then be able to face actual 
death. This has to be however at the hands of the person who has 
made the potion or at least someone of Dumbledore's choosing. It 
only by this that he can in a sense `survive' the Avada
Kedavra 
curse. Well not so much survive (yes I believe he did die) but to 
CREATE A POSITIVE HORCRUX. 

Whereas Voldermort would have no trouble with the idea of 
sacrificing someone else's life to create a horcrux it would
never 
occur to him to sacrifice his own out of love. This has always  been 
his weakness and Dumbledore's strength. The horcrux itself is 
probably either the locket with the cryptic message Harry has 
instinctively kept or Fawkes, his phoenix who has now flown away 
into hiding.
2) So this is why Dumbledore insisted on Snape and not Madam Pomfroy 
when he was returning sick from his turmoil with the potion in the 
cave. 
3) This is also why he stalled for time with Malfoy, so that Snape 
would arrive to play his assigned Judas role and that Dumbledore 
could glean some information that may prove useful later (after his 
resurrection).
4) Compare this drama to other uses of this `Cosmic death' to
bring 
victory:
The passion of christ; the dissolution of the ego; Gandalf's 
conscious meeting with his death (and resurection) in Lord of the 
Rings; Neo going to what he believed to be his death in saving 
Morpheus in The Matrix etc etc.

So that's it: The final book should see Dumbldore's dramatic,
last 
minute return in Harry's hour of need. It may also mean the 
sacrifice of Snape but not before Harry learns the truth about how 
Snape, despite his personl dislike of Harry and his father, has 
played the most dangerous and thankless role. A true sacrifice.
I can't wait


Wiseard.