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

[colebiancardi]

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> Charles:
> JKR at that thing where she was with Stephen King and another 
> author reading a small part of one of their books, stated in ? 
> from Salman Rushde and son that you should read the end of HBP 
> straight, (no hidden meanings) that what it says happened 
> happened, Snape's bad and he killed DD for what ever reason, but 
> it wasn't part of the plan by DD... Snape, at that point or 
> through the whole story, was or is on the side of El Voldemort.
>

colebiancardi:

I don't believe that is what she said.  This is from the transcript of
said question & answer:

Rushdie: Until the events of volume six, it was always made plain that
Snape might be an unlikable fellow [JK: uh huh], but he was
essentially one of the good guys [JK: uh-huh] [audience: 'yes!' and
cheers]. [JK: I can see this is the question you all really want
answered.] Dumbledore himself had always vouched for him [JK: yes].
Now we are suddenly told that Snape is in fact a villain and
Dumbledore's killer [JK: uh-huh]. We cannot, or don't, want to believe
this [JK laughs]. Our theory is that Snape is in fact still a good guy
[JK: right], from which it follows that Dumbledore can't really be
dead, and that the death is a ruse, cooked up between Dumbledore and
Snape, to put Voldemort off his guard, so that when Harry and
Voldemort come face-to-face [audience and JK laughs], Harry might have
more allies than he or Voldemort suspects. So: is Snape good or bad?
[JK laughs and audience cheers] In our opinion, everything follows
from it.

Rowling: Well, Salman... your opinion, I would say, is right. But I
see that I need to be a little more explicit... and say that
Dumbledore is definitely dead. And I do know there's an entire website
that's name is DumbledoreIsNotDead.comopens in new window, so I
imagine they're not happy right now. But I think I need.... You
need... All of you need to move through the five stages of grief
[audience and JK laughs] and I'm just helping you get past denial. So,
I can't remember what's next, it may be anger, so I think we should
stop it here. Thank you.


you can read the full interview at
http://www.hpana.com/news.19542.51.html