Draco and Dumbledore WAS: Re: Dumbledore Does Lie - Sort Of

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 160032

Pippin:
> I haven't forgotten about the Vow, by the way, but I think that 
Dumbledore and Snape meant to circumvent it by a ruse all along. The 
simplest way out for Dumbledore and DDM!Snape would have been for 
Snape to pretend to jump the gun and "murder" Dumbledore before 
Draco had a chance to fail. But Dumbledore wanted to bring Harry up 
to speed on the horcruxes first, and he wanted Snape to continue to 
serve as double agent and protect Draco as long as possible, which 
would have been impossible once the 'murder' had been committed. 
This is what Snape didn't want to do any more, IMO.
> 

Dungrollin:
See, I don't think that would've worked. If Snape had *pretended* to 
kill DD, but DD was actually still alive and in hiding, DD would 
have 'escaped' from Draco. Draco would have given up. Thus Draco 
would have failed. Thus ... etc.

But I dimly remember arguing this once before, so you've probably 
got a good reason for thinking otherwise.

Dung