From: dantomel@Use-Author-Supplied-Address.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:40:13 +0000 (UTC), Benjamin Esham wrote:   
      
   > Igenlode Wordsmith wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Benjamin Esham wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> > [Snape's death]   
   >>   
   >> His sole plot function seems to have been to conceal from Harry (and of   
   >> course Voldemort) the information that Dumbledore will need to have the   
   >> boy killed in order to achieve Voldemort's downfall, in order to reveal it   
   >> at the appropriate moment -- and in the event he very nearly fails even in   
   >> this simple task by falling foul of Voldemort himself before he can pass   
   >> the vital message on, a contingency that both he and Dumbledore really   
   >> might have anticipated given the death rate among members of the Order the   
   >> last time round. (Perhaps Dumbledore reckoned that if anyone could be   
   >> relied upon to survive at all costs it would be Snape?)   
   >>   
   >> We'll never know what Snape's original plan would have been, but it can't   
   >> have involved Harry happening to be on the spot and feeling sympathetic at   
   >> the moment of his death...   
   >   
   > Snape's death scene always came across as implausible to me for just this   
   > reason. It seems impossibly lucky that Voldemort kills Snape slowly (using   
   > Nagini) instead of instantly (using the AK curse), as he does *every single   
   > other time we see him kill anyone*. I get that Voldemort thought that using   
   > the Elder Wand against Snape wasn't safe, but I still find it hard to   
   > believe that Harry just happened to be there waiting the *one* time   
   > Voldemort decided to kill someone without sticking around to see it through.   
   > Maybe I'm just being too critical...   
      
   No just being an asshole. GTFU.   
      
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