Another take on what happened

[pippin_999]

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> Dumbledore, however, knows more than Snape thinks. He knows that
he's  not really on his side; he knows of the plot on his life.
Dumbledore  has a plan, which involves the sacrifice of his own life,
an event  (his death at least) virtually forshadowed in CAPSLOCK, but
Snape is  *not* in on it.

Pippin:
Of course Dumbledore knew he was going to die. Everyone dies. But
I don't think Rowling believes suicide is honorable, so I
wonder if  she would show us Dumbledore doing that. There's a
difference between going into battle knowing you
might die, and going into battle intending to. 

 I think this is reinforced by Jo's insistence that Lily did not
_know_ that she would be able to save Harry by dying herself. So
why did she do it? More, apparently, than just motherlove.

I just had a brainflash...what if Voldemort
intended to make Harry's dead body a horsepox? And Lily knew it?

That's why she said, not Harry, take me! That she'd do anything. But 
Voldemort wasn't interested in her -- the body of a lowly Muggleborn 
wasn't worthy, but the body of The Chosen One -- well, I just think
that would appeal to his twisted sensibilities, don't you? Stand
aside, you silly girl --- yeah, this really appeals to me. 

So Voldemort offs Lily, then AK's Harry intending to make his body a 
receptacle for his soul -- and he does, which explains the scar
connection, but Harry, thanks to Lily's sacrifice, doesn't die. So
only the scar needs to be destroyed, and that, I think, can be done,
despite Dumbledore saying that Harry will have that scar forever.
He is sometimes wrong, you know. From time to time.

And I just don't believe that Dumbledore would repeatedly insist 
to Harry that he trusted Snape if he  didn't. And he doesn't trust
everybody, we know that. 

(Yes, his great weakness is that he sometimes trusts blindly, but
c'mon, would you trust Snape blindly? Lupin, OTOH....)


I don't read her as implicitly dismissive of the idea that Snape's
not evil, just of the idea that the drama on the tower was something 
Snape and Dumbledore cooked up between them. I think she laid very 
heavy stress on the fact that she couldn't answer the is Snape evil 
question, that this was the focus of the next book and anything she
said would be a spoiler. 

Pippin