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Originally Posted by CreepingDeath
Dumbledore's pleas to Snape, "Severus....please...." were not begging him to spare him, but to finish him
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That's how I originally read that scene. Think about it - Dumbledore would never plead for his life. He's not afraid of death... the all-important disctinction between him and the Death Eaters.
Also, having drunk that poison, he was already on the verge of death. By the point where the trap is srpung, he is beyond saving.
Snape didn't help Voldemort by mercifully 'euthanising' Dumbledore... Draco was meant to murder him and go more to the 'dark side'. Instead, you have Dumbledore-loyal Snape ready to fight another day, and Draco not completely lost to the dark side. I've always been sure that he'd make good in book 7.
Interesting about the Horcrux theory - that's too complicated for me!