Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181670

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> > > a_svirn wrote:
> > !!
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> No shame at all for it went exactly right. If, that is, Dumbledore 
> did indeed set Snape as a target. For there is no denying that Snape 
> served his purpose as a target. 

Pippin:
I keep asking this, and so far no one has answered. By what logic
was Dumbledore supposed to deduce that Voldemort would decide he
needed to kill Snape to become master of the wand? Its previous
owner, in fact two previous owners, were conspicuously alive when
Dumbledore died. By Voldemort's own logic, Dumbledore himself 
could not  have been master of the wand, so it wouldn't
mattered who had defeated him, and killing Gregorovitch should
have made Voldemort master of the wand. 
 

Snape might have pointed this out, or spun some other fancy 
story to save himself, just as he did when he returned to the
graveyard, but it was obvious that Voldemort was in a killing 
mood. Snape had to decide whether getting his information to its
target was worth the life of another.

This time he made the right decision.

Personally, I agree that it wouldn't make much sense for 
Dumbledore to expect Snape to get the wand but not tell him
about it. But then, he may have. That would explain Snape's
hesitation on the tower, and the necessity for Dumbledore's
plea, assuring Snape that he was to go on with the plan despite
that it had already gone wrong. If it's plausible to
speculate that Dumbledore had an off-page plan to get Snape
killed by making him master of the wand, surely it's equally 
plausible that he had an off-page plan to save him? 

Of course if Snape had told Voldemort that he must defeat
Draco, it would have been the end of Snape in any case, since
Snape would  still be bound by his UV to watch over
Draco and protect him.

Pip