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Didn't he say something along the lines of the Dark Lord wanting to kill Harry himself?
Yeah, which makes for a very good excuse of not taking Harry out himself while he has the chance.

One of the only questions yet to be resolved in the story is why Dumbledore trusted Snape, so it'd be kind of weird to discover why he did in the last book, only to realize he was wrong. Rather we've been set up to think Snape cannot possibly be good, and we know how much JKR likes to pull the rug out from under us.

It seems to me, though, that the ONLY evil thing Snape has done so far (since he's claimed to be good) is to kill Dumbledore. Yet Dumbledore was clearly seeking him out at that point and they'd had words earlier about something Snape did not want to do. And all of this was after Dumbledore's speach about not fearing death. What do you think Dumbledore was pleading for Snape to do at the end? Rescue him? If that's all Dumbledore expected, he'd hardly have had to plead with one of his own to do it. Instead, he froze Harry so he couldn't be invovled and then stalled for enough time that Snape could come and kill him.

I could be wrong on all of theis, but I don't think Dumbledore is easily deceived- and he stood up for Snape pretty hard.
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