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Originally posted by andViolins
It struck me while reading HBP that ADD (I just can't get used to referring to Dumbledore as DD - I don't know why. I'm trying to compromise) seemed a lot less "SUPERWIZARD" in this book. Not just after he drank the poison. Starting with his destroyed hand, he just seemed to be not as great and all-mighty as JKR had made him out to be in the first five books. I know that she tried to cover it by discussing his advanced age, etc., but it just seemed to occur extraordinarily quickly. He was a goner from the very start. This was the only wizard that Voldemort was ever afriad of - who battled him in OotP, who took on the ministry and the Aurors, etc., etc. and he just seemed old and tired. Perhaps as was stated in the link (all the theories and spoilers) he was aware of what ultimately was going to happen to him and didn't have his heart in the fight any longer.
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I thought that maybe he was deliberately weakening himself, so he didn't inadvertedly end up killing Draco if Draco went through with his orders.
Dumbledore had to have known that Draco was instructed to kill him. He had to have known about the curse. Given how much extra protection he's put on Hogwarts, on Harry and on a variety of other things Dumbledore cares about, it makes sense that he's probably got hundreds of spells and charms and deflectors up on himself.
Did any one else sort of get the impression that Dumbledore and Snape were much, much more concerned about
Draco's well being than they were Harry's. This was the first book where there wasn't an on-going direct threat to Harry's life from Voldermort or one of his gang. Sure, one of those Death Eaters probably wouldn't have hesitated to kill Harry, but he wasn't the big focus of the year.
