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

[lealess]

No: HPFGUIDX 179852

> Lealess:
> > 
> > 
> > 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? 
> 

Snape has knowledge of Voldemort, enough to spy and make plans.  If 
Snape had knowledge of the Elder Wand, do you think he couldn't 
have conjured an explanation that would have satisfied Voldemort's 
delusions, or thrown him off the scent, or given him an alternative 
to needlessly killing him, like dueling and losing, for example?  
Snape survived for how many years as a spy?  Surely that wasn't all 
Dumbledore's doing.  But Dumbledore took even the chance of making an 
explanation or coming up with an alternate plan from Snape, in the 
face of what I believe to be a fairly knowable danger.  It's like 
sending someone into a burning building and failing to tell them that 
there are containers of explosive gas stored within.  It is viewing 
someone as either untrustworthy, which I think Snape proved he was 
not, or unworthy of consideration.  For those reasons, I think 
Dumbledore is as guilty of Snape's death as Voldemort.

lealess