Requiescat in Pace, My Dark Phoenix

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 151337


> Sherry now:
> 
> Sorry to snip all the rest of the post, but I'm replying to the 
overall
> theory.  I had a visceral *NO* reaction to this.  For the same 
reasons I
> can't accept Snape murdering Dumbledore for some noble cause.  It 
would make
> Dumbledore a murderer, and I simply cannot even contemplate the 
possibility.
> The supposed epitome of good in the series becoming a murderer is 
too
> horrible to consider.  Also, in the end it would make Snape too 
much the
> hero, Dumbledore the ultimate baddie worse than Voldemort, and 
diminish
> Harry, who is the hero of the story.  I was absolutely fascinated 
reading
> your theory, however.  Wow!

zgirnius:
I could be wrong, of course, because I do not subscribe to the view 
that DDM!Snape is a murderer...but I think Talisman's theory puts an 
interesting twist in the scenario. 

Because if Unbreakable Vows are truly Unbreakable, and act quickly 
once broken, Snape (who looks like Dumbledore) is about to die 
anyway, at any moment, when Dumbledore (who looks like Snape) shows 
up. And Dumbledore knows this. (There's no way they would have cooked 
up this plan between them if Dumbledore did not know ALL about 
Snape's Unbreakable Vow, right?) The ONLY way Dumbledore could 
actually save Snape at this moment would be to have himself killed 
(by either Snape or Draco). SO I really don't see how this makes 
Dumbledore a murderer.

In the DDM!Snape scenario where it is Snape who kills Dumbledore, 
there are all these doubts that can be thrown up against defenses of 
Snape:
The potion-maybe Slughorn could have made an antidote, it didn;pt 
have to be Snape.
The other death eaters-maybe Snape could have killed or disabled 
enough of them to save Dumbledore.

But there REALLY is no way out of Snape dying by Unbreakable Vow 
alomst imeediately, if Snape does not kill Dumbledore.