[HPforGrownups] HBP. Killing DD

[Aleta Turner]

No: HPFGUIDX 181595

Jayne asks:
In HBP why does DD plead with Snape when he is about to kill him?.
I thought from reading DH that this had been planned between them.
Am I perhaps correct in thinking that he was pleading with Snape to get
on with it and not to spoil their plan by letting someone else do it

Aleta replies:
I think so.  I think Dumbledore is pleading because he knows Snape
doesn't want to kill him, even though they'd planned it before.  Really,
Dumbledore planned it, and Snape felt he had to go along with it.  I've
wondered why Dumbledore didn't let *someone* besides Snape in on
it.  Wouldn't it have been useful to the OotP if Snape could still report
to them because McGonagall, or someone, had known the plans, and
that Snape wasn't actually the traitor they all reasonably assumed
him to be?

Aleta


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