Dumbledore the Manipulator WAS :Re: Sirius and Snape parallels again

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185120

 
> Alla:
> 
> True, however, my main point was that they did try even if did not 
> come out well.

Pippin:
I'm not sure what you mean by 'trying'. Yes, they would have liked to
find some other way, but they accepted that there wasn't time. They
didn't demand that Ron pause the game while they thought it over. 


> Alla:
> 
> The last moment I see of Snape when he hears about Dumbledore's plan 
> is pig for slaughter. I do not see anything to the contrary, him 
> expressing that this is such a cool idea. His guilt does not show, 
> neither does his hearty approval. I believe that this means that he 
> felt it was a wrong thing to do, but he would do so since it was 
> Dumbledore's orders and he always followed them.

Pippn:
Snape's last words that appear in the story are, "Don't worry
Dumbledore, I have a plan." He was not just blindly following orders
but actively and creatively finding ways to aid Harry's mission, which
he knew would eventually end in Harry's sacrifice. I don't think he
could do that if felt guilty about it.

> 
> > Pippin:
> > 
> > Right, DD needs a Manhattan Project -- get all the best minds in
> > wizarding together and they can make a lot of horcruxes to 
> experiment with. You do see some ethical problems with that, I hope? 
> <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Um, with your scenario sure, however that was not mine. I was
talking  about book research, not horcrux making. I thought it was
obvious  that I would not expect Dumbledore to do real life
demonstration, lol.

Pippin:
I thought it was obvious that a real life demonstration is necessary
at some point -- solving the problem on paper will not help Harry at
all, lol.  

Anyway the answer would only be in  a book if someone had previously
discovered it.  Wizards  used precious objects for their horcruxes so
that people would be reluctant to destroy them. That means previous
horcrux destroyers will have thought long and hard about other ways to
get rid of the things, and if they had succeeded someone would know
about it. 

But you know it always comes down to having to destroy the precious
object in the end. 

Pippin