Snape's dilemma (Was: Dumbledore as a judge of character)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 166097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:

> Carol again:
> Yes--"were it not for that peksy UV," which makes rearming DD not an
> option. If Snape does any such thing, he will die. 

Valky:
I find no fault with the scenario you've put forward, Carol. As you
know, I am quite comfortably entrenched in my DDM!Snape beliefs, and
mostly for the reasons which you gave in your post.

This little bit that I have quoted above, is a part which tends to wax
incomplete, for me. Snape could very well have died nobly to re-arm
Dumbledore, it may even be a choice he would have made, I don't think
it is impossible nor inconceivable that DD even in his weakened state,
with a wand in his hand, could toast the ugly twins and Fenrir a nice
shade of crispy with minimum collateral damage all on his clever
lonesome. That is, right before he died of the curse that in all
likelihood only one trustworthy and readily available friend was
blessed with the incredible talent and knowledge to cure ( that would
be the the dead friend... ) leaving Draco and his family completely
alone in the cold sinister grip of a madman, Harry in his youthful
naievete prematurely alone at the head of the battle, and everyone
else... completely in the dark to boot.

At additional risk to all involved, Snape could have died for
Dumbledore. Dumbledore could have engaged the bad guys, if necessary
brought Harry into the mellee to stun a one or two, and escaped with
all innocent parties (minus DDM!Snape) relatively unharmed and no
worse for the wear than when they arrived on the tower.. but how was
it that Dumbledore arrived on the tower? Doubly cursed by Voldemort,
saved from the effects of one of those curses by mysterious magical
handiwork of Severus Snape which we cannot say for sure would remain
effective beyond his death, dying of the second that we can be pretty
sure needs to be taken care of by someone highly intelligent and
knowledgable in a field that DD is not, to compare with Voldemort, and
to complement extremely trustworthy, before DD would allow it rather
than die himself. With Snape dead who does that leave, and how much
time does DD have to find that person? 

It occurs to me that Dumbledore decided for himself, in the moment he
realised only he or Snape could live, that Snape's life was the one
that the world needed, and his own life took second priority, and I
believe he gave the order to Snape, to live and not spare him in doing
it. 

JMHO.
Valky