Dumbledore's Death was planned

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 148836

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arlene" <arlenegustave at ...> wrote:
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> I belive DD did in fact have that night planned. I always wondered 
> why DD did not just "Accio" his wand to save his life??? It was 
> right there. 
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> He repeatedly asked for Harry to fetch Snape. It had to be Snape.
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> He stopped Harry from intervening by freezing him.
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> Then he "dropped" his wand and did not retrieve it. (He had enough 
> strength to stand there and talk to Draco for a while.)
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> If anything was not expected at the tower that night, I'd say it 
> was confronting Draco.
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> "Arlene"
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bboyminn:

I have one question that I always ask when people speculate that this
was all planned by Dumbledore. How does Dumbledore enlist the
cooperation of the Death Eaters? How can Dumbledore instigate any plan
that involved the cooperation of is enemies? Couldn't Dumbledore in
his infinite wisdom come up with a better plan that this?

It's too unfathomable to think that Dumbledore would attempt to
instigate a plan this complex with so much room for error and with so
much risk to so many innocent people. Would Dumbledore really fake his
death by inviting Death Eaters into a castle filled with innocent
students and teachers? That seems a pretty careless even reckless plan
to me.

I remember when Sirius died, many people speculated that Dumbledore
and/or Sirius had used the situation to fake Sirius's death. But this
is equally absurd. I just don't see the good guys creating grand
schemes that involve the complex cooperation of the bad guys.
Especially when the general circumstances are so unlikely. 

There are hundreds of way to fake a death that don't involve such
wacky and unlikely schemes.

Now, I will admit that once fate had set the circumstances into
motion, Snape and Dumbledore could have improvised a plan on the spot
that worked the bad circumstances to their own best advantage. But, I
simply can't see how this whole event was planned by Dumbledore. Just
too absurd and unlikely.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn