DD death

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 152678

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Adzuroth" <adzuroth at ...> 
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?

Tonks:

DD was not begging for his life. He did not summon the house elves 
or Fawkes for a reason. Whether or not you agree with my 
interpretation of the Christian symbols (see post #151730) there are 
still good reasons as to why the events on the tower happened as 
they did.  DD saved Harry, Draco, and Snape by dying. And DD is 
really dead.  It would serve no good purpose to pretend to be dead 
and leave the WW in such grief and the school possibly closed.  That 
would be a coward's way, and DD is not a coward.

Snape saved DD's body from being eaten by Greybeck by doing a non-
verbal to send him over the edge.  And inferni are the soul of the 
damned in hell. Or of the shades in Hades.

Tonks_op