[HPforGrownups] DD death

[Ffred Clegg]

No: HPFGUIDX 152743

Najwa wrote:
>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.

Not sure if this idea has ever been floated, but what if Dumbledore chose to 
be killed in order to save Draco's life?

It was clear that Draco wasn't going to do the deed, and we can surmise that 
the DEs would in turn have killed him if he hadn't (perhaps they had orders 
to do so as a further way to punish Lucius, or just because that's what 
happens to DEs who disobey).

Dumbledore knew this. He was a person who would willingly have died to save 
the life of one of his students, and did so.

Thoughts anyone?

hwyl

Ffred

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