Another take on what happened

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> Dungrollin
> Eyeing a big box of DELUSIONAL badges, and staring pointedly at the 
> posters she *knows* agree with her...

Potioncat:
I'll take one of those and wear it proudly!

Ok, let's go to a movie...a good old fashioned John Wayne war 
movie...no maybe someone more recent, but I don't know who...


"Men, our mission is to blow up the bridge before the enemy gets 
here. If they cross the river thousands of innocent citizens will be 
killed and all our troops will be in more danger.  At all costs, we 
must blow up the bridge!"

Yada Yada Yada

The explosives are set. All is ready. The junior members of the team 
have started back and only a few details are left to do. Then the 
enemy shows up and the commander is stuck. (he's injured, his tie is 
caught in the machine, I don't know) He can't get off the bridge! But 
he has his walkie talkie and he orders his XO to blow up the bridge.  

So the XO does.


Add to that if a very junior member of the team had tried harder to 
get that memory, they wouldn't have had to cut it so tight and the 
commander might not have been stuck on the bridge.


That's what happened I think. DD wasn't planning to die when he left 
that evening, but he was willing to. If he had gotten safely to Snape 
in time, he might have made it. 

If they had gotten to all the Horseheads in time, they might have 
gotten LV and nixed the UV entirely. That's why Snape was getting in 
Draco's way all year. Putting Draco's lookouts in detention. He was 
hoping not to have to carry it out.

It wasn't till near the end that it was looking more and more likely 
that Snape would have to kill him. Just like Lily put herself in the 
way, that's what DD has done. This way Snape can keep working for the 
Order...or at least work for himself against LV.

And I sure hope that new member of the OoP that we're going to meet 
knows the truth about Snape!! No one else seems to.


Kathy W (no, I don't really write movie scripts.)