I HAD A DREAM OR HOW I REALIZED THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG./ PART 2 sort of

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 167061


> Pippin:
> The text itself does not give us any justification for thinking that
> Dumbledore would ask to be killed. Characters do ask to be killed, 
but
> only when they are in intolerable pain, or when they think it would
> somehow appease the killer, who would then not seek another deaths. 
> But neither of those circumstances apply on the tower.

zgirnius:
I have to disagree. "when they think it would somehow appease the 
killer, who would then not seek another deaths" is precisely the 
circumstance I see on the Tower. (Just, make that "killers", 
not "killer"). Snape is not alone. There are four other adult, and 
presumably loyal to Voldemort, Death Eaters on the Tower, who I think 
might definitely have been willing to kill Draco and Harry. But 
Dumbledore knows whose death they seek - his.

By having one of their number (Snape, as they believe) kill 
Dumbledore, I think it did precisely have the effect that the killers 
decided not to seek other deaths. They took Draco along, never even 
realized Harry was present, and left the school without killing 
anyone else. What would have happened if Snape tried to make a battle 
of it could have been quite different.