Do any list members think Dumbledore might have asked Snape to kill him?

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No: HPFGUIDX 147042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> SSSusan:
> I'm a little puzzled by this.  NOT that I disagree with you that 
DD 
> wanted Harry to witness the scene but with the notion that there 
WAS 
> time/opportunity to have sent Harry to safety or through the 
school.  
> 
> I just finished a re-read a couple of nights ago, and so I'm 
pretty 
> sure that there wasn't time AT ALL.  DD tells Harry to go -- to go 
> and get Snape, not Madam Pomfrey -- and Harry turns to do so, but 
> before he can leave, Draco bursts through the door.  JUST before 
> Draco uses expelliarmus to disarm DD, DD freezes Harry under his 
> cloak.  
> 
> So, I guess I disagree that DD **opted** not to send Harry to 
safety 
> or on a mission in the castle and instead chose to have Harry stay 
> and learn a lesson.  Harry *was* going to set off to get Snape but 
> there wasn't time to leave the tower before Draco arrived.  So DD 
> made, imo, a SNAP decision to freeze Harry.  It wasn't a long-
thought-
> out decision that it was MORE important for Harry to stay and see 
> what developed with Draco than it was to send Harry to safety or 
to 
> wait for the DEs.
> 
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but when I read 
this, 
> it sounded as if you felt DD had adequate TIME to choose among 
those 
> three options (sending Harry somewhere safe, sending him to wait 
for 
> the DEs, or having him stay on the tower to witness the Draco 
scene 
> as it unfolded).  IMO, he did NOT have time to choose among those 
and 
> only chose to freeze Harry there when he realized Harry was not 
going 
> to get the opportunity to go get Snape's help.
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan, apologizing if she's missing the point here.
>

Darn your right, sorry about that, I wasn't remembering it rightly. 
Although Dumbledore did have several seconds and their flight up to 
the Tower to ponder what was going on. Harry also questions 
Dumbledore's orders on top of the Tower so there is a small time 
delay. The fact that Dumbledore doesn't tell Harry to flee or 
prepare to fight when footsteps are heard and the fact that he 
freezes Harry makes me think that Dumbledore knows who is coming up 
the stairs at least and that Dumbledore does have a plan to deal 
with that person.  

Still at this part of Dumbledore's decisions must have been time 
constrained. 

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