Dumbledore the Godfather

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 174075

"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Voldemort would discover that his 
> Horcruxes were being destroyed and start
> keeping Nagini beside him

And Dumbledore was right about that, he was also extremely lucky. For
all he knew Nagini could have been the first Horcrux Harry managed to
destroy not the last.

> DD has not told Snape that the scar
> is a Horcrux, only that it contains
> a soul bit that must be destroyed. 

I don't see your distinction; it seems to me that is the very
definition of a Horcrux.

> Neither Snape nor Harry must know
> that Harry has a chance for survival 

Why? I don't see why he couldn't tell Snape that Harry had a chance of
survival, it would certainly stem a potential mutiny when Snape is
angry at Dumbledore for leading Lilly Potter's son to slaughter like a
pig.

> a chance that depends on the Hallows,
> as I understand it 

I don't think that had anything to do with it.

> Harry, as DD anticipated, has taken 
> the precaution of telling a friend to
> destroy the snake.

No that can't be right. Dumbledore says, "If I know him he will have
arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it
will truly mean the end of Voldemort". So if everything had gone
according to Dumbledore's plan then both Harry and Voldemort would
have died in their first encounter in the forest that night. But as
Harry says Dumbledore overestimated him, he was unable to dispose of
the snake. Poor Harry, he didn't even think his sacrifice would mean
the end of Voldemort; it would just destroy one more Horcrux, himself,
and make it a little easier for somebody else to kill him someday.

Dumbledore had to make some cold hard unemotional decisions as any war
leader must, it is necessary for the greater good, but I was a little
disappointed in the man when he taunted Snape when he expressed
reservations about leading a 17 years old boy to slaughter like a pig.

  Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald