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

[dumbledore11214]

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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. 
<SNIP>
> Magpie:
> I'm trying hard to make this not just a "me too" but whoa--that's 
brilliant! 
> And I think you're right. It may not be something that JKR sat 
down and 
> planned, but I tend to think that writers naturally come up with 
similar 
> situations because on some level it relates to the way that they 
see the 
> world. I think JKR could very much be drawn to situations just 
like these, 
> where there's a perfect plan but it all goes wrong because of 
things like 
> this--although of course with JKR nothing is ever a literal repeat.
> 
><SNIP> And of course Snape is not Sirius, so he's going to make 
different 
> choices etc. Now's the time to make things right, and it's kind of 
brilliant 
> if this scenario plays out again. Excellent catch!


Alla:

I loved that too, Quick Silver. Very cool parallel. But of course as 
Magpie said with JKR it is never an exact repeat, but repeat with 
twist, so time to make things right it can be now, but it cannot be 
the time to make things completely right IMO, since DD is already 
dead.

So who knows, maybe the twist is indeed that while Sirius was 
innocent and worked to escape Azkaban, Snape is **not** an innocent 
party, who just participated in the plan got wrong, but a guilty one.

Maybe the twist would be in Snape realising how wrong he was and 
working to correct it. :)