DD's death scene revisited and other side notes

[Adzuroth]

No: HPFGUIDX 150214

Hey Everyone!

I havn't been on this site in several weeks so this may or may not 
have already been discussed.  Anyway, in my last post I mentioned 
some of the anomalies behind Snape supposedly murdering Dumbledore, 
but there were a couple of angles I overlooked.

First of all, why didn't Dumbledore summon the house elves to his 
side when he was in trouble up on that tower rooftop?  For that 
matter, Harry could have done the same with Dobby.  You don't need a 
wand to summon any house elves, you just have to call them by name, 
like Harry did in the "house elves" chapter of HBP.  Even one house 
elf would've been more than a match for Severus, just like Dobby was 
when he wuss-slapped Lucius when Lucius tried to attack Harry at the 
end of Chamber of Secrets.

That lends further credence to the theory that Dumbledore wanted 
everyone to think he was dead.  It seems very unlikely, IMO, that 
Dumbledore got so tired of living that letting Snape kill him was 
part of his grand plan to defeat Voldy.  It makes more sense for DD 
to fake his death so that Voldy would become so confident that he 
would leave himself vulnerable for DD to set up Harry to kill Voldy 
once and for all.  Unless of course JKR wants DD to come back as a 
ghost and help Harry ala Obi-Wan Kenobi style.

Second of all, why didn't DD go straight to Madame Ponfrey if he knew 
he was in such bad shape?

On a couple of side notes, does anyone else besides me suspect that 
Rufus Scrimgeour is an animagus, or possibly a werewolf?  There was 
that mention of a "mane" of hair and him looking like an old lion.

Finally, doesn't Snape know by now you cannot give or take away 
points from any of the houses until the school term officially 
starts?  Snape tried doing that in CoS when Harry and Co. came to 
school in the flying car, but Minerva overturned that because the 
term hadn't started yet (it starts, I assume, the day after the 
sorting hat does its thing).  I guess in HBP Snape mentioned point 
taking out of spite and it wasn't a real threat.

Speaking of which wouldn't the point system have some sort of appeal 
procedure?  If so, the books never mentioned anything about it.  
Without such regulations the point system would be wide open to abuse 
as the the heads of house would go about sabotaging each other to get 
the house cup (I can see it now: Snape taking 50 points from 
Gryffindor because Harry looked at him funny, and McGonagal taking 50 
points from Slytherin because Draco forgot to brush his teeth that 
day)

Adzuroth