Dumbledore's Fall

[colwilrin]

No: HPFGUIDX 170726

> Pippin:

> All the clues are in place now that Dumbledore did not die on the
> tower but nearly half an hour later, just before Harry found him.
> Harry's instinct, that if he could have found a way to get Snape
> and Dumbledore together, events could be reversed, was right.
> His sensation that someone near him was in pain was right, too.

> IMO, Snape could have saved Dumbledore from the poison. But
> he never got the chance, because Dumbledore didn't want him
> to have it. The mission was more important. Snape was not
> allowed to help Dumbledore, just as the Twins were not allowed
> to go to their father in OOP even though he might have been
> dying, because it would have given away too  much.

Colwilrin:

This makes sense. Fake Moody tells the class that you must mean
the curses when you say them. Later in OOP, I believe it is Bella
that laughs at Harry after he tries the Cruciatus curse because "he
has to mean it".

If Snape is DDM...he could have said the AK curse, but without
meaning it, it would not kill. That leaves DD to fling himself off
the tower...and possibly do the soft landing. Then, the poison would
have finished him off before he was found.

I think that DD was dying from the affects of the hand injury
throughout the course of HBP. I think he knew that his time was very
limited. It is possible that Snape was helping him prolong his life
with a potion until he felt that Harry knew enough for him to allow
death to come. The potion in the cave may have been the final blow
to a deteriorating man. Perhaps Snape could have saved him, but I
think that his death was planned ahead, and he was begging with Snape
to allow the plan to proceed.

Colwilrin