A Simpler Scenario

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> Pippin:
> <snip>
> So here's the *simple* Snape is innocent version:
> Regulus poisoned the goo. Dumbledore drank it
> and was dying by the time Snape reached him on 
> top of the tower. Dumbledore pleaded with him
> not to take any heroic  measures to save him.
> 
> Snape did a fake AK, and immediately afterward
> a non-verbal wingardium leviosa. Dumbledore gave 
> up the ghost, and Snape let the body fall from the 
> tower so that the DE's, who are familiar with the way 
> someone ought to look when they've been AK'd, 
> would not get a chance to examine it.
> 


Neri:
Not bad at all. I especially appreciate this new devotion to 
simplicity <g>. I still have some questions about this simple 
scenario, though:

1) Why did Snape make the UV in the first place?

2) Did Dumbledore know about the third part of the UV and if so, how 
was he planning on handling it?

3) Dumbledore dying of the poison in midair still sounds like a bit 
too much of a coincidence to me.


In addition, accepting for a moment your basic premises for the tower 
scene, it strikes me that two great minds such as Dumbledore and 
Snape, legilimening between them as they were, could have worked out 
a much better solution to the situation. For example: Snape does a 
fake AK but *without* the levitation spell. Dumbledore plays dead. 
Snape tells the DEs: "it's over! You go down the tower first, we're 
coming after you". When the last DE had gone down the stairs Snape 
tells Draco to take one of the two brooms and fly to the gate, he'll 
join him there soon. After Draco had left Snape can stun the DEs on 
the stairs from above (non verbally, so they don't realize who's 
shooting at them). At the same time Dumbledore can release Harry from 
his freezing spell and explain to him that he's dying and Snape is on 
our side. Snape takes the second broom to join Draco and Dumbledore 
is left to say some memorable last words while dying in Harry's arms. 
Hey, it even works well in the literary sense.   

Neri