Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 181663

> Carol:
 *She* apparently
> considered Snape's death to be necessary to her plot and 
consequently,
> *she* killed him, but it was no necessary consequence of
> *Dumbledore's* plan, which, I agree, was flawed in many respects and
> overly dependent on chance. Even without Draco's Expelliarmus,
> Dumbledore's plan might--or might not--have worked. It depended on
> choices by Voldemort, Harry, and Snape, on luck, on timing, and
> probably on factors I'm not even considering.

a_svirn:
And what sort of plan is that, if it covers none of those 
contingencies?! To say that it was merely "flawed" sounds like an 
understatement of the millennium. Dumbledore might just as well 
refrain from meddling and let Harry and Snape to play their own 
games. 

> Carol:
> But Snape's death could not have been part of the plan; he had to
> deliver that message, which he could only do if he were alive. 

a_svirn:
Yes, I would think so myself. However, the fact remains that if a 
Dumbledore from Harry's head to be believed, he had planned for Snape 
to be left with a wand. Which would place Snape very much in the way 
of anyone who was after the wand – be it Harry or Voldemort. Neither 
of whom would hesitate to remove him from their way. (Indeed, Harry 
would have been only too happy for an excuse to go after Snape.) So 
either Dumbledore deliberately set Snape up as a target, or he grew 
so senile in his old age, that he couldn't even see the obvious 
consequences of his own actions. Of course, there is a third 
possibility – that Harry imagined it all wrong in the privacy of his 
own head. 
a_svirn.