The Pig to be Slaughtered (wrong! -- or is it?)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 173300

>Chuck Han:
> However, if Voldemort were thinking clearly, he
> would have realized that the Elder Wand could be passed without
> killing the previous owner.  If he thinks that the progression is
> Gregorovich/Grindlewald/Dumbledore/Snape, then he should have realized
> this fact since Gregorovich and Grindlewald were still alive. 

zgirnius:
I agree that this must have been Dumbledore's reasoning. Otherwise his 
plan for *Harry* had a gaping hole. The idea that Dumbledore set Snape 
up to be murdered, and ALSO made Snape the sole posessor of vital 
information Harry needed to get before the end, is illogical. What if 
Voldemort had killed Snape before it was time for Snape to deliver the 
message to Harry? As it was, this pitfall was avoided by a matter of 
seconds. There is no way Dumbledore could have predicted which would 
happen first.

I therefore think Dumbledore reasoned as you suggest. He expected 
Voldemort to think the wand was his by right of his seizure of it, just 
as he knows Grindelwald stole it from Grigorovitch, and Dumbledore 
seized it from Grindelwald.