The Pig to be Slaughtered

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 172670

> Lupinlore:
> Well, except that by DH, at least, he wasn't intending Harry to be a 
> pig for slaughter.  He was intending Harry to live and triumph 
> through the resurrection magic that he was confident would be 
> activated by Harry's selfless sacrifice.  He was, in effect, lieing 
> in his conversation with Snape (as, to be fair, JKR lied. or at least 
> bent truth to the breaking point, when she said magic could not bring 
> back the dead).
> 
> However, it does seem that there is a character being prepared as a 
> pig for slaughter in HBP and DH, and that character would be Snape.  
> Consider this -- DD wants the Elder Wand to be left without a master, 
> thus his decision to willingly die at Snape's hand.  However, he must 
> have known that Voldemort would assume Snape was now the master of 
> the wand.  Therefore, he must have known what would happen.  Snape, 
> for his part, did not even have the truth to defend himself with, as 
> he did not know anything about the Hallows (not that it would have 
> made any difference to Voldemort).


Neri:
As much as I can make sense of Dumbledore's original plan, Snape was
to be killed by Voldemort and the Elder Wand end with no master. Harry
was supposed to eliminate all the other Horcruxes, then find he's the
last Horcrux, go sacrifice himself, Voldemort would kill the Horcrux
inside him, and then what? It still leaves Harry to fight Voldemort on
skill alone, effectively a pig to be slaughtered. The phoenix core
wand wouldn't have helped him even if it wasn't broken, since
Voldemort wouldn't be using the brother wand, and Harry would lose
Voldemort's powers when losing the Horcrux. The plus would be that
*everybody else* would be protected from Voldemort because Harry had
sacrificed himself for them. So as much as I can make sense of the
original plan (I suspect it will never make complete sense) both Snape
and Harry were to be sacrificed, with Harry having the advantage of at
least knowing he was a sacrifice. Who was to kill Voldemort in the end
I have no idea.

Neri