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Glad you liked the essay! Good point about the Prophecy--I had almost forgotten about that.
If the "necessary sacrifices" were done on purpose, that really creeps me out, since Dumbledore would probably have been complicit in it, and basically have condoned the deaths of his own people. Which is not entirely out of character with DH Dumbledore, but it still gives me the shivers.
An anonymous reply below makes a good suggestion: that Snape gave the DEs info that led to them making some kind of attack, like the one on the Ministry that led to Sirius's death. Sirius (and Vance and Bones) happened to be in the line of fire, and Snape was able to take credit for their deaths even though they weren't specifically planned.
If the "necessary sacrifices" were done on purpose, that really creeps me out, since Dumbledore would probably have been complicit in it, and basically have condoned the deaths of his own people. Which is not entirely out of character with DH Dumbledore, but it still gives me the shivers.
An anonymous reply below makes a good suggestion: that Snape gave the DEs info that led to them making some kind of attack, like the one on the Ministry that led to Sirius's death. Sirius (and Vance and Bones) happened to be in the line of fire, and Snape was able to take credit for their deaths even though they weren't specifically planned.