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

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 166107

> 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. 

Jen:  I like this as a loose parallel; there are just a couple of things I'm not certain about.  
Are you saying Dumbledore/Snape planned the events of HBP from the beginning, before 
the UV and including the cave?  And I wasn't sure what you meant about 'the person who 
dies is not as planned' when you said James.  Well, and also Dumbledore--who was 
supposed to die that night?  (I really hope this is not a 'duh' question and I'm missing 
something very obvious <g>).

I get that Peter didn't guess LV would become vapor--is the parallel that Draco didn't 
realize he wouldn't be able to kill Dumbledore?  

Now Sirius and Snape I understand.  Re: their connection, even if the Princes are never 
found to be on the Black tapestry, I see more between these two than the connection JKR 
draws between Snape and James.  I've wondered if Snape despises Sirius in part because 
Sirius threw away what had been handed to him on a silver platter:  pure-blood family, 
famous Slytherin connections, magical prowess, intelligence, etc.  He and Regulus *could* 
have been a set in Slytherin if Sirius had chosen the 'right' path.   There would be 
something very ironic about both Snape and Sirius falling prey to their own plans, though 
neither would ever see it (meaning Snape wouldn't and Sirius wouldn't if he could).

That's a good idea, Quick_Silver, I'll have to think more about it.  I know you are just 
proposing an idea and not saying it's all laid out like a theory!  I was just trying to figure 
out how the pieces connected.

Jen R.