DD death

[Adzuroth]

No: HPFGUIDX 152722

"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 
<snip

> > 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
>

Adzuroth:

I read your post about Christian symbols, and it makes for a very 
compelling argument (and I'll bet you're a lawyer in RL too ;) ).  
However, I'd like to direct your attention to Mathias Forseti's post 
(#152480) which elaborates on some of the discrepencies behind DD's 
death scene.  It makes for a pretty compelling countercase for those 
pro-death believers out there.  Also, for Snape to send DD over the 
edge and kill him at the same time would mean he had to 
simultaneously cast two spells, a feat no wizard has ever done in any 
of the books (to the best of my memory that is).  Furthermore, if DD 
is the greatest wizard alive, would it be too much of a stretch to 
say that he might have found a counterspell to neutralize the 
unbreakable vow (in a similar manner that Snape used a countercurse 
for Harry during his Quidditch match back in book 1)?