DDM!Harry and Snape/Grey!Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 162908


Ffred wrote: 
> Surely it was not Harry for whom Dumbledore gave his life, it was
Draco: Harry's invisible and immobilised and thereby not at risk. But
Dumbledore was prepared to die, not for one of the good guys, the
prophecy boy who he hopes will finally deal with Voldemort, but for
the "worst" child of all, the one who had always espoused Voldemort's
ideas, who had actively plotted to kill him.
> 
> Something which I found to be a very powerful message.

Carol responds:

If Dumbledore died for Draco, he also died for Harry, who was in the
line of fire and would have jumped out to fight as soon as Dumbledore
died and the spell was released if not for Snape's timely action, and
for Snape, whom DD didn't want to die from the UV. Also, DD wouldn't
have died if he hadn't made Harry forcefeed him poison, which brought
about his helplessness, enabling Draco to disarm him, but also helped
Harry get the fake Horcrux, which will eventually enable him to get
the real one. So taking the poison was sacrificing himself for Harry
even though it didn't kill him directly.

The problem is, given the DEs, the poison, and the UV, Dumbledore was
going to die, anyway. If he'd let Draco kill him, he'd have failed to
save Draco from murder. If he had died from the poison, Harry would
have rushed out to fight the DEs and most likely, both he and Snape
would have been killed. If he had let snape defend him, all
three--Snape, Draco, and Harry--would almost certainly have died along
with Dumbledore. By having Snape kill him, DD gave his death meaning. 

Carol, who also sees a powerful message in DD's death but sees the
chief sacrifice as having been made by Snape, who has lost his job,
his reputation, his freedom, the trust of the Order, and perhaps his
soul for Dumbledore and the war against LV