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

darkchylde_18 darkchylde_18 at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 26 22:22:54 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 147091

Quick_silver71 wrote: 
> 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. 
> 
> 
>


I know that DD seems omniscient inside the castle but not outside of 
it.  I don't think he knew who it was coming up the stairs and wanted 
to keep Harry safe.  We all know that Harry acts first and thinks 
later.  All DD knew was that DE's were in the castle.  I'm not even 
quite sure how Draco knew that DD would be on the Tower.  Oh yeah, 
Rosmerta.  How could she not have told him that Harry was with him?  
I think DD froze Harry to the spot because he believed the safest 
course of action would be to keep Harry with him based on how 
unpredictable the situation was.  

Someone in discussion said that they supposed Legilimency was going 
on between Dumbledore and Snape and I wholly agree about that.  This 
is a reputed hard skill to master and I don't think any of the other 
DE's would have realized what was happening.  And because this was 
Harry's POV, I don't think he connected the dots.

 Not adding much, but there's my opinion.  
     -Darkchylde










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