DD death

[Najwa]

No: HPFGUIDX 152673

adzuroth wrote:
> Am I the only one who thinks there's something a wee bit wrong with the 
> belief that Dumbledore suddenly got tired of living and decided to die 
> on his knees at the hands of Snape, begging for his life?  I always 
> thought DD had a little more pride than that, and would have prefered 
> to look Snape square in the eye and say "just do what you've gotta 
> do".  DD more than likely wanted the rest of the wizarding world to 
> believe he was dead so Voldy and the DE's would have a huge false sense 
> of security.  They would then become much bolder than ever before, 
> which would lead them to make mistakes that Harry could capitalize on.  
> Besides, if DD really believed he was going to die he could at any time 
> have summoned the house elves to defend him (and no, you don't need a 
> wand for that).  There's much more to DD's so-called death scene than 
> meets the eye.  Has there ever been another instance where pumping a 
> ton of emotions into an unforgivable curse resulted in an additional 
> effect on top of its intended result?  As far as I know the answer is 
> no.  If you hit someone with the killing curse, they simply fell over 
> dead as opposed to getting knocked backwards over a battlement.
> 
> P.S.- anyone have an idea as to why JKR called the undead inferi 
> instead of using the more popular nomenclature of zombies?
> 
> Adzuroth
>

Najwa now:

I don't think he got tired of living and begged for death, I cannot
begin to understand why this death was needed, but I highly doubt he
would die in that manner to snape without there being a reason that he
knew that he must die at that moment, perhaps to let LV think that he
can get his way with harry and Hogwarts. But the death scene is a
strange one, so instead of looking at it like he begged snape to kill
him because he was tired of living, I say that snape was hesitating
and Dumbledore was somehow telepathically telling him that he needed
to kill him, because of the unbreakable vow and because he needed to
stay on as a double agent, and not die because he broke his word to
narcissa. do you see what i'm getting at? When he said "severus
please..." i do not think he was begging for snape to save his life
either. we won't know what went down that night until the next book.

Najwa