On Dumbledore, Snape and Horcrux-Harry

[two_flower2]

No: HPFGUIDX 174486

Having read DH, I was horrified at  what seemed to me Dumbledore's 
ruthless and heartless conduct: to raise child in order to manipulate 
him into sacrificing himself seemed despicable to me.

I could not understand why Snape went along with Dumbledore's plans 
even after having learned that Harry, whom Snape had strived to 
protect for so many years, was to be "slaughtered like a pig".

But suddenly it dawned on me that Dumbledore never 
soughtto "sacrifice" Harry.  On the contrary, he desperately tried to 
save him from "a fate more horrible than death".  All the 
Machiavellian plans might not have been for the greater good at all.  
It might have been all about Harry. Dumbledore knew that being a 
Horcrux, Harry was tethered to life along with Voldemort.  It means,  
that Harry was OMG immortal in the same nasty way Voldemort was.  
While a bit of Voldie's soul was in Harry's, Harry could neither live 
happily, nor die normally.  And what if somebody had killed off 
Voldie and sent his disembodied spirit to an unknown destination for 
a hundred years?  What would have happened to Harry in that case?  It 
was crucial for D-dore to make Harry try and get murdered by Voldie 
ASAP, in Harry's own best interests.  It was not even death 
Dumbledore tried to save Harry from, it was an eternity of cursed 
existence or something like that.  Poor Dumbledore and Snape.  How 
desperate they must have  been.  I think that when D-dore stopped 
being teary over Snape's patronus, he explained to Snape that they 
were STILL protecting Lily's son and in the circs it would be a mercy 
for the boy to actually die, and their task would be to manipulate 
events so that Harry would get a chance to sacrifice himself, and 
then, if lucky, Harry might not have to die after all due to Lily's 
protection.

Not that their actual plan--for Snape to explain Harry about 
Harrycrux when the right moment came--wasn't silly.  Snape was in a 
constant danger to be killed by minion-murdering Voldie on a whim 
before he had a chance to talk to Harry and that's what almost 
happened.

Anyway, Dumbledore is not THAT Machiavellian as he seems, IMO

Twoflower2, a lurker