Whom did Dumbledore torture and killed? WAS: Re: re:Scrimgeour/WerewolfBites

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179848

Lealess:
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> Dumbledore could have warned Snape about the Elder Wand at any 
> time... but he didn't.  He coldly kept his secrets and sacrificed 
> Snape to Voldemort's whim.  No matter how the Elder Wand ownership 
> fell, Snape could not have won.

Pippin:
If Snape could not have won no matter who owned the wand, then
what use would a warning be?  Voldemort's belief that he had to
kill Snape was delusional, since Voldemort knew that mastery
of the wand had passed from Grindelwald to Dumbledore while
Grindelwald was still alive. Dumbledore could predict that 
Voldemort would delude himself into believing the Elder Wand
would give victory to whoever had it, but how could he predict
what form that delusion would take? 

Harry knows that Dumbledore orchestrated his own death and Harry's
near-death, and he knows that  Order member Moody  killed Rosier,
who preferred to die rather than come quietly. From Moody's rather
boastful "took a bit of me with him" he did not think Dumbledore
would disapprove. 
 
Harry has also told Aberforth that he believes Dumbledore felt
responsible for Ariana's death. 

But Harry also knows that Dumbledore spared the lives of many
whom others would have killed, if Lupin is correct that most
people would not hesitate to kill DE's in  a combat situation: 
Draco, the DE's captured at the Ministry, Grindelwald and  Crouch Jr.  


Pippin