Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181727


> 
> Potioncat:
> But, Snape wouldn't have had to kill him at all, if Draco didn't make 
> an attack himself. DD could have died from the poison, while Snape
made  a good act at trying to save him. He could then say to the Order
I did  my best; and to LV, I let him die.
> 
> Had DD's death happened something like that, no one would have been
the  master of the wand--by any stretch of the imagination, and Snape
would  not have been in danger from LV. Well, at least because of the
wand.
>

Pippin:
Okay, but Dumbledore wasn't intending to let the poison kill him when
he took it. In order for him to die "on his own terms" he needed to
have the choice of saving himself, and *that* could be why he was so
anxious to make contact with Snape even after he knew that Death
Eaters were in the castle. 

Pippin