Death, Killing and Harry's Angst (WAS: A Simpler Scenario

[potioncat]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> --- potioncat <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> 
> > While I'm assuming 
> > his "Severus, please" was his request for death, I'm open to 
other 
> > views. 
> 
> 
> I tend to believe that it was an all-purpose plea from a man who was
> dying to a younger man he trusted to clean up the whole mess: get 
the
> DE's out of the castle, minimize the danger to the school and the
> students, rescue Draco from taking the irrevocable step of becoming 
a
> murderer, save Dumbledore from a fate worse than death (I think the
> stuff that Dumbledore drank wasn't just poison but was turning him
> into an Inferi) and - by no means least - leave the relative safety
> of Hogwarts to come out in the open as a Voldemort supporter and 
kick
> off the endgame that will result in Harry's triumph at the end of
> Book 7.
> 
> I don't think it was ultra-fast legilimacy messaging or anything 
like
> that; Snape and DUmbledore would have worked out a number of
> worst-case scenarios and this could have fallen into that category.
> 
> Magda
> 
> 


Kathy W:
Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant to say! 
One liners, me too's and unsnipped posts are allowed here, right?