The Pig to be Slaughtered (wrong!)

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 173125


> 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(?) replied:
> >   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. (Unsigned post
> so I hope I got the atribution correct.)
> >

> Carol responds:
> I've been thinking about this <snip>
> Clearly, DD intended Snape to be
> the master of the wand and keep it safe (one part of the plan was to
> make sure that neither Draco or a true Death Eater got it), but that
> can't be the whole plan. Clearly, he didn't expect Snape to die. The
> moment of regret for his fate in King's Cross would have been the 
most
> horrible hypocrisy if that were the case. 
> 
> What, then, did Dumbledore want Snape to do? I think he wanted Snape
> to disarm him before killing him so he would be not only the master
> but the possessor of the wand (which LV at that point would not have
> known).


Annemehr:

I've been thinking about this, too.  In Kings Cross chapter, DD did 
say he intended Snape to have the wand, but gave no further details.  
I'm not at all sure he intended for Snape to be its master.

During the final confrontation in the Great Hall, Harry said to LV:

"Aren't you listening? /Snape never beat Dumbledore!/ Dumbledore's
death was planned between them! Dumbledore intended to die
undefeated, the wand's last true master! If all had gone as planned,
the wand's power would have died with him, because if had never been
won from him!" [DH ch. 36, p. 742 US]

I know some may be leery of accepting Harry's word for it, but he has 
logic on his side: you can't be said to have bested someone when you 
were working together for a common goal.

So, as best I can make out, Snape was intended to help DD break the 
power of the wand, not to be master of the Death Stick.  Which leaves 
Snape set up to be killed by Voldemort in his own quest to be its 
master.

Canon and logic appreciated, if I'm missing something. ;)

Annemehr