The Pig to be Slaughtered

[silvialaura2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 172732

UNIX4EVR wrote:
> Nope.  Snape wasn't set up to be slaughtered.
>
> As far as Voldemort knew Snape killed Dumbledore when he
> (Dumbledore) was defenseless (didn't have his wand).  Since Snape
> didn't disarm
> Dumbledore (and Voldemort knew this even though he didn't know that
> Draco had disarmed Dumbledore) Snape had no claim to the elder
> wand.
>
> You have to disarm the owner.


silvialaura:
But Voldemort got it wrong. He believed that you have 'to kill the
master', he told Snape so.

That was stupid of him, since Dumbledore was master of the wand and
he spared Grindelwald.


Neri wrote:
> > 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.

rowena_grunnionffitch wrote:
> I don't think that's quite right. DD himself says he intended
> Snape to have the Elder Wand, and is disapointed it didn't work
> out that way, (Kings Cross Station chatper). Personally I find
> this rather touching evidence both of DD's trust in Snape, leaving
> him something so powerful and perilous, and his concern for him.
> Maybe he hoped with the Elderwand Snape might manage to survive
> the War.


silvialaura:
The Elder Wand was buried with Dumbledore, so he left Snape with
nothing.


silvialaura