Dumbledore and his Withered Hand

[harrysgurl201]

What was up with Dumbledore's hand? All we know is that 'if it were not for Snape...my injury would have been much worse..."

What I want to know is how Dumbledore sustained that type of injury. The only thing that I can come up with is that he injured himself when he was trying to get a Horcrux or while he was doing something for the Order.

I also just thought of something...Dumbledore's hand looks like it is dead...what if Dumbledore was dying before he drank the potion? What if Snape put a stopper on death? (Snape mentioned this in Harry's first lesson with him. In book 1). A stopper of death is "a cork or a plug that closes an opening to the body..."

So what do you think?

[RememberTheScar]

Why is the injury so bad, anyway? I mean... it's just like he got a burnt hand or something, nothing too serious.... if that is a 'life-threatening injury' Harry's going to live. Nah, i don't mean that... but the stopper of death thing.... i wonder what this potion thing was...

[harrysgurl201]

Yeah...well i just thought of it after I finished book six the last time I read it...and i remembered that it said something about 'stopping death' in book one...

[RememberTheScar]

Good spotting... sorry if i sounded a bit weird in the post above! I was agreeing with you, though it's hard to tell... how did snape save dumbledore's life anyway? Oh... snape saved Dumbledore's life, so they share the bond that Harry & Wormtail share... so ... Dumbledore will do snape a service... Snape will be glad he saved Dumbledore's life... sorry, thinking back to book 3... could this be important?

[harrysgurl201]

Yeah...I forgot about that...Dumbledore does owe Snape his life...yeah...good job! I think it could be important...

[R.A.B]

Since I've been more --- behind the scenes lately --- I think I'll post. I think that Dumbledore is dead. End of. And Snape is bad. That's it. And Dumbledore got the whithered hand from the Horcrux.

[RememberTheScar]

Yeah, I think he's dead. But he could have done some stuff before he died.