Why DD did not ask Snape to kill him. (extremely long)

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 166095

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
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> zgirnius:
> OK, I just decided I *have* to dive in to this Snape debate. Enough 
> lurking...
> 
> I disagree that DDM!Snape requires "disregarding everything we've 
> been told, it calls for a lying and puppetmaster DD, a stupid Harry 
> and a plot so difficult to understand it makes you even wonder if 
JKR 
> is able to keep track of it."
> 
> My view on what happened is quite simple.
> 
> I share your opinion (roughly) of the Unbreakable Vow, in that "he 
> (Snape) *thought* he could control the situation" when he took the 
> Vow. Where, if I have understood your position correctly, we part 
> ways, is *how* he tried to control it.
> 
> It is my view that Snape fully apprised Dumbledore of the events of 
> Spinner's End and the fact that Draco's task was to kill 
Dumbledore. 
> This is neither confirmed nor negated in the text, but there are 
> passages that can be intrepreted to support my position. Dumbledore 
> claims he knew all about Draco's task on the Tower (this would be 
> from Snape, as I see it), repeatedly suggests to Harry that Draco 
is 
> not Harry's problem to solve, and when Harry tells him about 
Snape's 
> Vow, Dumbledore says both that the information does not worry him, 
> and implies that he understands better than Harry about the Vow, 
> which again could be because Snape did tell him all about it.
> 
> In my view, then, Dumbledore and Snape *together* were attempting 
to 
> manage the situation. The security precautions at the school would 
> have been part of this, Dumbledore's order to Snape to keep an eye 
on 
> Draco would be as well, as might the presence of Order members 
> anytime Dumbledore left the school. And on the Tower, the solution 
> Dumbledore devised is made plain: to get Draco to give up his task 
> and go into hiding under Dumbledore's protection with his family. 
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Quick_Silver:
This is just an interesting side note but when you describe the whole 
Dumbledore Snape thing throughout HBP it comes across as bearing an 
incredible resemblance to Sirius's plan to protect the Potters. Not 
in details but in...essence...you have a plan that requires someone 
to risk their life (Sirius and Snape), there's an underestimation of 
a key component of the plan (Peter and Draco), someone who should 
have been in on the plan is left out (Dumbledore and Harry), and the 
person that dies is not as planned (James and Dumbledore). And then 
you have Snape at the end of HBP, seemingly losing it, which bears a 
resemblance to Sirius's infamous bout of the crazies. Plus you have 
the fact that Snape seems to be alone among the enemy rather like 
what happened when no one believed that Sirius was innocent. 

Quick_Silver