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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 166110

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

Valky:

Hi Jen! I think if we are running with the parrallel quicksilver
makes, then Snape = Sirius and Dumbledore = James... and Sirius's
willful decision to die if he had to in order to protect James,
translates loosely into Snape's decision to follow the order given by
DD in GOF, and go back to the DE's to his peril, to help in the cause. 
So for the most way through the plan it is Snape who is likely to die
and willing to die, and out there risking it as the target so DD can
do the job in secret. It is then that Draco (parrallel Peter) jumps in
the deep end and becomes a spanner in Snape's good works; not by
joining with Voldemort or by being a young fool on a destructive path,
 but, like Peter, by being smarter and more capable than he was
estimated to be and actually sticking Snape feet first in the s***t
despite his best effort to stay out of it.

When Sirius decided his plan to make Peter the Secret Keeper was
clever, he was assuming, as he said, that Peter was weak and harmless
 and nobody would guess James would choose him, so therefore noone
would go after him, they would chase Sirius instead and James secret
would stay safe. 

IWhen Snape is taking the UV, I don't think he is believing it was
clever to do so, I think he knows he might be making a mistake. But I
would guess that it is in fixing or controlling that mistake he (and
DD) came up with something that parallels Sirius's plan, hinging
primarily on the assumption that Draco was really no match for
Hogwarts, it would always come down to Snape. And Snape, like Sirius,
would always rather die than do the deed. 

And then Draco outsmarted everyone, and the rest is history.

:) 

Valky