[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore as a judge of character (Was:Why DD did not ask Snape to kill him

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 166017

From: Sherry Gomes <sherriola at earthlink.net>
>no matter what supposed orders, a soldier who kills his general, his
>commander in chief is a traitor and faces a court martial and likely
>execution.  I will not apologize to Snape for following such orders, if
>there were such orders, and I will join Alla in considering Dumbledore quite
>a vile manipulator, if he gave them.  

Bart:
Once again, there is at least one valid reason for Dumbledore to give Snape an order to kill him: If, no matter what Snape did, Dumbledore was about to die anyway. 

There was an elaborate version of this at the end of the TV series, ANGEL. An internal plot caused one of the core characters to die (her body was possessed, so the actress kept her job). Angel figures out how to make her death count, by pretending that he was behind it. This got him into the inner circle of baddies, which gives him the opportunity to get the intelligence needed to destroy it. 

If Dumbledore was going to die, possibly within minutes, anyway, having Snape kill him allowed his death to have meaning. Otherwise, he sacrificed his life for a fake horcrux.

Bart