Re: What’s the point of the Deathly Hallows? Not the book, but the Hallows?

[pippin_999]

Anne:
> Of course, whatever happened with the Wand, DD pasted a 
> big "sacrificial pig" sign on Snape's back since he knew the manner 
> of his death would make Snape appear to be the master of the Wand.  
> If anyone can tell me how things would have gone better for Snape had 
> DD died with his wand in his hand, please, let me know.


Pippin:
Um, I may have it all wrong once again, but Dumbledore said Snape was 
supposed to get the wand, right? And then, no doubt, stow it away 
so he could produce it at the right moment and dispose of the 
Dark Lord once Harry had died and rendered him killable.  But Draco
messed it up by getting the wand first. As Snape must have known or
could have guessed.

Since Harry figured out that Snape was supposed to get the wand, surely
Snape could, even  if DD never got around to telling him. And if Dumbledore 
hadn't been able to get the wand to Snape, then he was, ipso facto, not the 
master of it when he died. I think Snape knew that, and that's why he was so
desperately looking anywhere but in Voldie's eyes in the few moments before
he became snakefodder. 

I'll accept that Snape wasn't Jo's idea of a hero, he never had the courage of 
truly selfless love. But his death was chosen and redemptive, because you see,
IMO, all he'd have had to do to save himself was once again set the Dark
Lord on an innocent. All he had to do was blurt out that it wasn't him,
someone else must have taken the wand from Dumbledore first. 
But he kept his mouth shut, died bravely, and his reward was that it turned 
out to be the right time.

Oh, and if he got into GP, doesn't that prove that "I did not kill you, Albus"
was the truth, and Snape bobbled the AK on the tower after all? Must have
been why he was so anguished.

I nominate me for the Sybil Trelawney award for best unintentionally accurate
prediction. By spurious methods, and with an interpretation that was dead
wrong, I predicted that the Book Seven ESE! would be revealed on page to be
the confessed killer of Sirius  Black. 

Bullseye. 

'Course I never guessed that Dumbledore would turn out to be Grindelwald's 
ESE. Did anyone?

Pippin