Dumbledore's Fall again was Re: The twins?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 170783

SSSusan:

> 
> If DD *would* have been able to have been restored to pretty much 
> normal health by Snape, then I guess I find it hard to believe that 
> DD wouldn't have found *some* way to have 'played' that scene on the 
> Tower to allow that to happen.  Or do folks think that would just 
> have been totally impossible to have pulled off under the 
> circumstances, with all those around, and all the DEs knowing Draco's 
> assignment?

Pippin:
Well, it depends what you mean by normal. A life being constantly 
hunted by Voldemort, having to cut yourself off from everyone
you care about to avoid bringing them into danger,  is no life at all. 
("Neither can live while the other survives" )

The match at the  Ministry proved that Voldemort no longer saw 
Dumbledore as invulnerable, even before his hand was injured.
With that damaged hand, a rematch would be no contest at all.  
Dumbledore was doomed in any case, unless Harry managed
to destroy the horcruxes and eliminate Voldemort very quickly.

But the thing is, Dumbledore could have done something to 
disguise his hand. Instead, he flaunted it in front of the  school at
the opening feast. It's like he was saying, "Nyah nyah, come and
get me!" I think Dumbledore planned all along to fake his death
if he could --  as Peter knew,  there simply isn't any other way 
to evade death at Voldie's hands once he's decided to kill you. 

If Dumbledore *had* faked his death, Snape would have no 
doubt returned to Voldemort, and he couldn't have come flying
back again to help Dumbledore if something like the ring curse caught 
him. Maybe that's what the argument in the forest was about,
Snape not wanting to obey an order like the one DD said he
might have to give Harry in the cave, to flee and leave Dumbledore
to his fate. 

Pippin