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

[Sherry Gomes]

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


> Sherry:
> There's only one or two good Snape scenarios I can easily live with.
> 
> 1.  If Dumbledore was actually dead and it can be proven that he
was, and if
> he was dead by something besides the potion in the cave, and Snape
realized
> it and faked the murder.  I can accept that, but there had better
be proof.

zgirnius:
I have been following the discussion with some interest. Why would 
the potion in the Cave killing Dumbledore not be a Good Snape 
scenario you could live with? Surely it would have nothing to do with 
Snape?

Or is it the involvement of Harry that you would then find 
unaccaptable? He did not know what the potion did, for sure. He 
believed Dumbledore. Dumbledore himself did not know (he says, and I 
believe him, except when I am admiring Pippin's cool idea that Snape 
made the potion.)


Sherry:

It is the involvement of Harry.  Because he would feel it was his fault
Dumbledore died, and I don't think he could live with that or ever come to
terms with it.  The guilt would haunt him to the end of his life.  He's 17,
he doesn't need a burden like that.  Besides, he's the hero.  He's an
innocent boy, stuck with a miserable destiny to kill an evil being,
something he didn't sign up for.  I think he has enough burdens to bear.  I
don't think Harry should be one who kills, even accidentally. 

Sherry