A Simpler Scenario

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Can't see how iit simplifies things much - just the opposite.
Nor can I understand this reluctance to believe that ole Snapey
AK'd DD. It's  the simplest solution of all.

If Snape is ESE there's no more to be said.
If Snape isn't, then it rests on the nature of the Cave potion.

The Inferi are undead that serve Voldy. Is it impossible that
DD, by drinking the potion, could also be enslaved to Voldy? Or
to suffer something equally nasty?
Would he then wish to live?
I doubt it. Death doesn't seem to be such a big deal in HP.
The loss of the Stone means sure and certain death for the Flamels.
Does anyone care much?  Apparently not. It's treated as no more
than an interesting change of circumstance; not an end but a phase
boundary.

"There are worse things than death, Tom." And glugging down that
potion could well have been one of them. In which case death would
be an escape, a release. I appreciate that there are fans who don't
agree, but death, in some circumstances, is the merciful option. And 
if a helping hand is needed? Fine. If I can't manage it myself, I hope 
there's someone around to help me when things get really bad. 

Kneasy