[HPforGrownups] UV = DDM? (was:Re: OFH! Snape again. WAS: Straightforward readings?

[Sherry Gomes]

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Betsy Hp:
Of course Dumbledore didn't *choose* to die!  He destroyed the ring 
horcrux and was mortally wounded as a result.  I think if it weren't 
for Snape, Dumbledore may have died right then.  But I think Snape 
was only able to give him a stop-gap, a tiny bit of time during which 
Dumbledore carefully placed his final pieces on the board.  No, 
Dumbledore didn't choose death, but when it came he did choose to not 
freeze in the face of it and to make sure his death was meaningful.



Sherry:

I can't find anything meaningful in Dumbledore's death.  I find it a waste
and a crime and a not very well thought out plan, if it was a plan.  I am
never resigned to death and never think it's a good thing.  I don't
necessarily believe Dumbledore was either dying from the injury to his hand
or the potion in the cave.  No matter what motives Snape had for killing
him, nothing could excuse it.  It doesn't help to have Snape be firmly seen
to be in Voldemort's camp, because nobody will believe a word that comes out
of his mouth now.  And even if they could be convinced, how on earth is
having Snape close to Voldemort more important than having Dumbledore alive,
the only wizard that Voldemort ever feared.  We lose one great weapon for a
not so great and not very wise replacement.  It just doesn't make sense to
me.  I suppose that is because I cannot fathom the death ever making sense.
i doubt even JKR can make it make sense to me.  Where there's life and all
that.  I never could become resigned to Frodo running off to the gray havens
in LOTR either.  i am not resigned or accepting of death.  LOL.  But in a
practical sense, there hasn't been an excuse put forth yet, that makes me
think, oh yeah, that could be a good reason for Dumbledore to have died at
Snape's hand or seemingly at Snape's hand.


Sherry