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

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 166108

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at ...> 
wrote:
<snip>
> 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>).

Quick_Silver:
Sorry that's probably my fault. The whole point of Sirius's plan was 
that he, Sirius, would be the one in danger (as the decoy for Peter) 
and not James. But when everything went down James ended up dying. In 
HBP Snape takes the risk of dying (the now infamous UV) but 
Dumbledore ends up dead. 

As for planning everything out...I'd say that Dumbledore and Snape 
did have a plan. For this parallel I'd say that the UV was definitely 
planned out before had...not as a plan to get information but to save 
Draco. I don't think that the Tower scene was planned out...that's 
where the underestimation of Draco comes in...Dumbledore honestly 
didn't think that he could get Death Eaters into the Tower. This is 
really the only way that I can make sense of the UV...as a means for 
Dumbledore and Snape to save a student (from himself). 
 
> 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?  

Quick_Silver:
Actually I meant that James and Sirius underestimated Peter in the 
sense that they never thought that he'd turn to Voldemort (or be 
capable of blowing up a street). On the other hand Dumbledore (and 
maybe, big maybe, Snape) underestimated Draco's ability to bring 
Death Eaters into the castle (I believe Dumbledore says as much on 
the Tower). 

Quick_Silver