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So I'm rewatching this movie for the first time since I saw it in theaters however many years ago. I'm curious if anyone else felt the same way about this: the scene where Snape kills Dumbledore, right before he does it Albus says "Severus... please". In the book, Dumbledore seems to beg for his life a little more, but in the movie... it almost seems like he is asking Snape to do it. I don't know, does it seem to anyone else it comes off that way?

And before anyone says it, yes I am aware Dumbledore and Snape were in on the whole thing and in a way, it was almost staged. But even then...

And before anyone says it, yes I am aware Dumbledore and Snape were in on the whole thing and in a way, it was almost staged. But even then...

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Dumbledore was asking Snape to do it. As you said, they had already had an agreement: when the time came, Snape would be the one to kill Dumbledore. Because Dumbledore originally thought that whoever killed him would take over as the master of the elder wand (though it didn't exactly work that way since draco disarmed dumbledore first, transferring the power over to him instead, and then transferring it to harry once harry disarmed draco).

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