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who do you blame for dumbledore's death? also, how many people can you find to connect to it and blame, even if you dont particularly blame them?
you could blame narcissa, for making him take the vow,
you could blame bellatrix for agreeing to preform the spell
you could blame snape for agreeing to even take the vow
you could blame snape for not dying rather than killing dumbledore
you could blame RAB for bothering to replace the vile potion even though he had taken the hocurx
you could blame RAB for taking the hocurx and making dumbledore die for nothing
you could blame dumbledore himself for trusting snape so much
would do you think someone could blame if they wanted to? who do YOU blame?

Oh my God Pixymajik It was an excellent job!!!!

Seriously: in this alreasy written book I blame Voldemort. Because almost all tragedies are caused by him.
And of course Rowling. I hope that now she will redeem herself making Snape not that bad in the end.

- You could blame Dumbledore because of using a spell on Harry, so Harry couldn't save DDs life
- You could blame Voldemort because of the creation of the Horcrux which made Dumbledore weak.
- You could blame everyone who was asleep instead of duelling.
- You could blame Fred&George for inventing the Instant Darkening powder that helped to get the deatheaters inside the school.

Krjeltje, do you listen to Placebo maybe because I see "Bruised but not broken" in your signature...

- You can blame people because they want to have the biggest power
- You can blame Death Eaters that they came and were pressing Malfoy
- You can blame Rowling because she likes finishing nice people off in her books
- You can blame me because I was Snape by Polyjuice drinking and I killed DD! (another theory)

Well people what about responsability for your actions? I would only Blame DD no one else.

DD was partialy responsible for the dead of Sirious, he decide to over protec HP he froze HP preventing HP help...

What happen to him was from his chousing, nothing else...

This is an interesting thread that I feel I must post in. I will try not to repeat what other people have said but it may happen by accident. Here goes:

- First of all, you can blame Voldemort because he told Draco to kill Dumbledore and he just felt like killing him.

- You can blame most of the Death Eaters because most of them supported Voldemorts plan to kill Dumbledore.

- You could probably blame the Death Eaters family because the Death Eaters might have told them and they probably supported the idea.

- You could blame Dumbledore because he went to go and look for the Horcrux therefore allowing Draco to let the Death Eaters in.

- You could blame Madam Rosmerta because she told Draco that Dumbledore left therefore signaling Draco that he could let the Death Eaters into the school.

- You could blame McGonagal because she sent Professor Flitwick to go and tell Snape that the Death Eaters were in the school.

- You could blame Professor Flitwick because he listened to Professor McGonagal and went and told Snape.

- You could blame Hermione and Luna for letting Snape go when he came out of his office.

- You could blame Harry because he kept giving Dumbledore the potion that weakend him.

- You can blame Dumbledore because he told Harry to keep giving him the potion.

- You could blame Voldemort because he made the Horcruxes in the first place.

- You could blame Lucius Malfoy because he failed to do whatever he was sent to do and the MoM therefore causing Voldemort to give Draco the task.

- You could blame Draco because he failed to finish Dunbledore off in the first place(if he had tried Dumbledore would have found someway to stop it)

- You could blame Cornelius Fudge because he didn't believe Dumbledore and Harry when they said Voldemort was back.

- You could blame Wormtail because he helped to bring Voldemort back to power.

- You could blame Snape because he actually killed him.

- You can blame Dumbledore because he trusted Snape in the first place.

- You can blame Fred and George because they made that Peruvian instant darkness powder.

- You could blame Mr. Borgin because he sold Draco the Hand of Glory which allowed the Death Eaters to get through the castle.

- You can blame Mr. Borgin because he told Draco how to fix the Vanishing cupboard.

- You can blam Montague because he told Draco that he could travel between the two cupboards.

- You could blame Slughorn because he made the Polyjuice Potion of which Draco stole to transform Crabbe and Goyle.

- You could blame Crabbe and Goyle for being too stupid to know better than to help Draco with his plan.

- You can also blame everyone who trusted that Dumbledore actually trusted Snape therefore trusting him as well. (so I guess you can blame me)

- You can blame Snape for taking the Unbreakable Vow.

- You can blam Narcissa Malfoy because she got Snape involved.

That is all of the people I can think to blame right now but there will be more later.

beside DD, I would blame these:

- You can blame Fawkes because he didn't come when DD was about to die.
- You can blame Harry because he told the house elves to go to sleep at night, therefore they did and so they didn't tail off Malfoy (At least, this is what I thought)
- You can blame Trelawney because she started the whole chaos
- You can blame DD for not recognising the scent of a fake or the original horcrux.
- You can blame all the rest of the order because they let Snape and Malfoy go when they tried to run away.

Hmm...all the others have been posted, but I'll think of more.

@ RABH, this is more about who you COULD blame, than who we really blame for the death, don't take it too serious.

- You could blame Bellatrix for not preventing Narcissa and Snape to take the vow.

- You could blame Harry for giving the twins the money they needed to open the shop and sell the Instant Darkness Powder to Deatheaters.

- You could blame Harry for letting Wormtail getting away in book 3, I he had killed him Voldemort wasn’t resurrected already.

- You could blame Slughorn because he told Voldemort about the horcruxes once.

- You could blame Dumbledore because he was the one who brought Tom Riddle to Hogwarts and told him he was a wizard.

I like this thread. Here are mine:

- You can blame Dumbledore for not listening to Proffessor Trewlaney when she was showing him the lightning struck tower card.

- You can blame Snape because he wanted to save his own life instead of Dumbledore's.

That is all I have for now because my brain isn't working today.

dumbledore is dead because of himself

i believe this was all a grand scheme of the order's.

we all know dumbledore will do whatever it takes to destroy voldemort. what better way to lull voldemort into a false sense of security than dumbledore actually being killed. by SNAPE no less. this ensures snape can stay in with the death eaters in a spy capacity. let's remember that voldemort doesnt know harry is the only one that can kill him and that he is the only one that can kill harry. everything points to a final showdown between harry and riddle. with dumbledore gone, the death eaters will storm the order and try to wipe them off in one blow. the only death eater that can even shake a stick at the order is bellatrix and she is proving to be quite an adversary but i think it is obvious that tonks will be the one to kill her because let's remember that tonks is bella's niece. everyone else in the order can handle death eaters (and i suspect that the weasley parents will be kick butt in action because we have yet to see them fight as though rowling was saving them for something huge). people will die on both sides but either harry or voldemort will kill the other. harry could very well be the one to die.

remember that i didnt say this scheme will work...i think it is the plan though.

also the order will be helped out by the heart-of-the-battle emergence of snape on the good side...element of surprise is always helpful.

just a theory

I like the theory PADFOOT's avenger. But anyways I am here to say who else could be blamed.

- Riddles mother because she gave birth to Riddle who wanted Voldemort dead.

- You can blame Prof. Trewlaney because she is the one who made the prophecy.

My brain is not working today so that is all I can think of right now.

I would blame Lucius Malfoy:

He married Narcissa (who, with Bellatrix, made Snape take te unbreakable vow), fathered Draco and taught him in the ways of the Dark Lord (bad parenting I must say), Introduced the diary into the school (Showing DD what Voldy was up to making horcruxes in all -which led to DD hunting them, getting weakened etc...) HE messed up in the Dept. of mysteries - leading Voldy to use his son as a pawn - leading to Draco letting the Death Eaters into to school), taking dd away from Hogwarts in book two leading to Harry following the spiders and saving ginny stopping voldy again (this also angered Voldy- another reason why Draco is his pawn, identifying Sirius as a dog on platform 9 3/4 - made Harry beleive that sirius was being couped up really feeling that he would do anything to get out and be captured by voldy - taken to the Dept. of mysteries giving Lusius the chance to mess up (i.e if Harry didn't feel that Sirius was feeling couped up in grinwauld place, he may have listened to snape a lilttle more and not beleived the dream/vison -far-fetched I know), and finally for sentencing buckbeak to death - If buckbeak was left alone Hermione and Harry didn't save buckbeak - Sirius wouldn't of escaped from the tower - wouldn't have died in the DoM enraging Harry to want to go horcrux hunting with DD. (If Sirius died in book three before Harry really got to know him, harry might not have been so hurt - this one is stretching I know)

And there you go Lucius is at fault for everything.

I blame both Voldemort and Lucius Malfoy. Well, I mean, most problems in Harrys life are credited to Voldemort, but I dont think he would have set such an impossible task for Draco, if he didnt want to get back at the Malfoys, therefore its also Lucius's fault. And yes, it would be Snapes fault, I mean, he did kill Dumbldore, but I firmly believe that he's innocent so its not his fault. Either way, Dumbledore's gone and Harrys going to have to face Voldemort alone.

~ you could blame whoever made the two cupboards connect.
~ you could blame Fred and Georger because they shoved Montague into the cupboard.
~ you could blame Dumbledore for having his interview with Trelawney the day she predicted this whole mess.
~ you could blame everyone who allowed for the Imperious Curse to control them and helping Voldemort's power become even greater
~ you could blame Tom Riddle for cursing the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" class, forcing Dumbledore to let Snape be the teacher, giving him what he wanted. {no idea what this has to do with DD's death . . but it's still gave Snape what he wanted, which made me mad}
~ you could blame the whole population in the wizarding world for not believing Voldemort was back
~ you could blame anyone in the story.

Personally, i would like to blame Dumbledore himself. If common sense had prevailed he would have realised that the locket in the bowl had no serpent on it like that of slytherins, so he would have had no need to drink it. When he returns i blame Madam Rosmerta for not fighting the imperius curse, and then blame Dumbledore again for immobiliseing Harry, who could have run out and got in Snapes way, because no one can kill him but Voldemort. Personally i demand a refund!

I blame Dumbledore. I think that he pretty much put Snape up to it and that Snape didn't have a choice as there was still the greater mission ahead, which he and Dumbledore would've realised was more important than Dumbledore's life, and also the spell he performed for the sake of Narcissa.

I'd like to re-read the end to get a more solid conclusion on what happened exactly, but that was the strongest sense of what happened I got out of the book when I read it. I also don't think that Snape is completely evil. He withstood an excellent opportunity to capture Harry and bring him to Voldemort (post-killing Dumbledore) and he helped Harry during his first year at Hogswarts not because he had to or there was a greater purpose to keeping him alive but because he felt like he had a debt to repay. A man with a semblance of honor can't be wholly evil.

or you could just be simple and blame Snape for killing him and Voldemort for making Draco do it which caused Narssissa to make Snape make an unbreakable vow which(being Snape) made him rather kill Dumbledore then die himself and the Death Eters for putting so much pressure on Snape to do it because they would have told Voldemort about him not really being on their side(if that is the case) because then Voldemort would have killed Dumbledore and snape. So it all comes back to Voldemort. If thats simple then someone shot me. I like being complicated, its fun!(HeHeHe)

I am sitting here with my friend and we came up with a very good one so here it is:

- You can blame Barty Crouch Jr. for transforming the triwizard cup into a portkey that took Harry to the graveyard where wormtail cut off his hand and took harry's blood which reformed voldemort, therefore he was able to tell Draco that he needs to kill Dumbledore.

- You can blame Ron because he didn't give Sirius and Lupin Scabbers, which is really Wormtail, who in the end got away and helped Voldemort back to power.

- You can blame the lady at the orphannage, who let Dumbledore take Voldemort to Hogwarts where he was told by porf. slughorn about the horcruxes, and dumbledore found out and went to find it.

that is all for now.

- First and foremost, you can blame Snape himself for being a jerk and for working for someone like Voldemort. And for committing something like that.

- Some blame goes to his parents and peers for his bad childhood, but ultimately that can't be used as an excuse.

- Voldemort, obviously.

- All of the Death Eaters for making possible what happened.

- Draco Malfoy for his involvement.

- Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa to a large degree for turning Draco into what he is.

- The entire Order of the Phoenix, for the fact that Snape was in it and they never picked up his treachery, or were willing to believe it.


And finally (and I'm sure some people will want to lynch me for this):

You can blame Dumbledore himself for knowing how strong and clever a wizard Harry is, but not taking his counsel on Snape. And for being too trusting and letting down his guard and allowing Snape to remain at Hogwarts.

(Yes, I do fully believe Snape was solidly working for Voldemort.)

i blame severus snape...i hate him sooo much now.......but all the same..he made the book more interesting...anyway, after all dumbledore had done for him and all he did was kill dumbledore in the end! how rude of him! well through cruelty, you can never win so i hope he dies in the next book...

I would blame Voldemort. After all, it all leads back to him, doesn't it? He chose Draco to kill Dumbledore, Narcissa made an Unbreakable Vow with Snape, Snape killed Dumbledore so Draco wouldn't have to, and if you think about it, everyone's actually protecting each other except for Voldemort. And I'd also like to add that Dumbledore acted very strangely, like he knew that he was to die, maybe he and Snape had talked before then. Maybe the "Severus Please" was a plead to watch over Draco. Maybe I've gone mental. I don't know, these are just my theories. Let me know if you agree, people!

guys! you're forgetting sommething sooooooooooooooooooooooooo important!!! sure snape killed dumbledore (i cried ) , so now everyone's asking "why did he do it" and stuff like that when the real question is "did snape actually kill dumbledore?". when malfoy was coming into the room, dbldr knew and he froze harry. how did he know? did you ever thyink that Expeliarmus could not work while another spell was in action (or he could have had an emrgency wand in his pocket)and snape and dbldr had it set up in the begining?!!!!!!! maybe dumbledore disapparated (he had the spells protecting the castle off) and made somekind of thingy that looks exactly like him... mabey it was a dead boggart still in the shape of dumbledore! it could be sooooooooo possible!

I know its really unlikely but... you never know with JKRowling!

i sought of blame dumbledore he trusted snape so much but maybe he asked snape to kill him but i really still do like dumbledore it is also snapes fault he should of killed himself ahhhh i feel like killing snape myself now lol

I blame Voldemort and no one else.
Okay maybe I blame Bellatrix a little for agreeing to preform the spell and being such a...well you can imagine the words I'd want to put there, add your own. But I will not blame Snape because I believe with every inch of my heart that he didn't want to and he had no choice and that Dumbledre told him to kill him if circumstances demanded such action. And I don't blame Narcissa because she was jsut being a good mother and trying to protect her son like any good parent would do so if anything I gained more respect for her character.
But this wouldn't have happened if Voldemort didn't make draco a death eater and didn't set him such an impossible task, and I'll even go a step further and say if Lucius hadn't screwed up in the department of mysteries, Voldemort wouldn't be so angry in the first place.

I blame Snape. I hate him.
I don't care if hes following Dumbledores orders, or is realy on the goodies side, or he isn't realy dead, or whatever.
I detest him with evry fibre of my being.

No-one else, they didn't make him. He could have laid down his own life to save him.

Alright I agree with Lithium. I blame the Dark Lord. Snape is a good guy down deep. Don't anyone tell me that he didn't appreciate all that Dumbledore did for him through out the years. No matter how evil or good one is there is always a sense of gratitude.
The Dark Lord is a very hot tempered fellow. The littlest thing will set him off. Actually, it was kind of refreshing not to have yet another Death Eater screw everything up. At least Snape listened and obeyed the commands, whether he wanted to or not. Then again, do really even know if the Dark Lord commaded him to kill Albus, or did he do it because the "circumstances demanded such action."
I really don't care what any of you think. I believe Dumble dork is dead, and I am happy.

No one is to blame, as Dumbledore said "The consiquences of our actions are so diverse that you can hardly blame anyone" (at least something like that). No one is to blame except Voldemort. no one else really.

You could blame JKR even though her books are sooo awsome!

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you can't blame Madam Rosmerta because she was under the imperious(?) curse!

to ay the truth i dont think its really dumbledores fault its just that im so angry about him dying these are all my suggestions:

1.sanpes fault for doing the unbreakable vow
2.narcissa's fault for telling him to do it
3.malfoy's fault for taking the quest
4.voldemorts fault mainly for setting this whole major crisis

what do you think about my suggestions?

BTW:Lithium that evolution picture is freaky

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just thought of this and i had to rite it!!!!! ok in the 5th book, sirius shows Harry the family pictures and his brother is Regulus Black!!!!! hoo knows? his middle name could start with an A!!! RAB!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh! that's so hott and every one thinx he's dead! wat if he's not?????!!
im not even sure if this relates to the subject but i had to let it out!!!

I don't think that it has anything to do with this topic, unless of course your trying to pin the blame on Sirius or RAB in general. I guess that if you just add that then you'll be ok. I for one think that RAB is still alive and will play a major role in the last book.

Back on topic, i blame Lucius a while back, and after reading all the posts since then, I still blame him .

But, I will add that Merope is to blame for tricking a muggle to love her and baring a child, allowing herself to die and then leaving him in an orphanage to grow up with hatred and abandonment issues.

If you all really want to get this started...

~You have to blame Salazar Slytherin for having a family who eventually had Marvovo Gaunt, who had merope who had Voldemort. If Voldy never existed then Dumby wouldn't have come to the orphanage to tell the unexistant Tom to go to Hogwarts, who never would have learned magic, hence never turnung evil. If then unexistant Lord Voldemort was never evil, Snape would have nobody to be secretly loyal to and take the unbreakable vow, meaning that Draco would not have any mission because his parents are loyal to someone that doesn't exist (which technically means that they are not loyal to anyone), meaning that Dumbledore would still be alive because Snape wouldn't have to kill Dumby if there was no mission

hehehe... that was fun!

Its all Salazar Slytherin's fault!

id blame Sirius Black.
if he didnt change secret keepers the potters would still be alive and none of this would have happened

I don't know if someones already said this but...

You could blame Lupin for turning into a werewolf at a most inappropriate moment in PoA therefore allowing Wormtail to escape and return to LV setting this whole ghastly chain of events into action.

I miss Dumbledore

We could also blame Voldemort for making a Horcrux so Dumbledore would go after it and make himself weak...

I blame no one for Dumbledore's death. I think his pleading with Snape and Snape looking hateful was just an act so the other Death Eaters wouldn't suspect anything. I believe that Snape is good and only killed DD because DD made him do it. It's also possible that Dumbledore is still alive but highly unlikely because I can't imagine him doing something so cruel as to make out to Harry and the rest of the wizarding world that he was dead when he really wasn't

even though i dont personally think dumbledore is dead, if he is im going to have to blame snape and bellatrix...because snape didnt need to kill him before making the unbreakable vow unless he was a true death eater, and he deceived dumbledore. and bellatrix for having made the suggestion of the vow.

For the death of DD? I don't really blame anyone. However, if I had to blame someone, I would probably blame The Dark Lord. I love him and am a loyal servant, but he did kind of have a hand in Dumbledores' death. I also blame Bellatrix Lestrange!! I hate her and will blame her for everything! Mwhahah...

Well for the death of The most important character of the film that is Dumbuldore,i blamed many of the Death Eaters especially Bellatrix for agreeing to perform spell and also the wife of Lucius Malfoy Narcissa for making him to take the vow,and also that Lucius Malfoy itself.

So... basically I blame Voldemort because he is the one who wanted Dumbledore killed but wouldn't do it himself, and because he killed... a lot of other people too. Such as Lily and James Potter. Although I suppose that if they hadn't died there wouldn't be much of a story...

There are so many endless choises! I dunno though...I would probably blame Trelawneys parents for deciding to have a baby, becuase she grew up to make the prophacy, which made Voldy go for Harry, which made Dumbledore want to try and distroy him becuase of waht he did. But you could also blame Merope. She gave birth to Voldemort, so it's her fault that he's even alive!

--rjtwerp

I have to admit that I don't really blame anyone for Dumbledores death as I think it was meant to be and even though I miss him, it was meant to happen and snape was meant to kill him.Events unfold for a reason and there is nothing that anyone can do anything about it. But I believe that with Lily and James Potter, their friend was supposed to be their friend and you just don't stab your friend in their backs.

i blame DD not that i dont love him, but if he hadnt been so trusting then he wouldn't of been killed...you could also blame harry for stoping sirius and lupid from killing wormtail which lead to voldy being reborn...of course everything is voldies fault!!!

Dumbledore - because he was always too stubborn to see that he might be mistaken in trusting Snape
Snape - obviously, because he killed him
Bellatrix & Narcissa - for making Snape take the vow
Pettigrew - for betraying Lily and James in the first place, and bringing about this whole series of events (although without it we would have missed out on the best books ever)

BUT, in the end it all comes back to Voldemort.
Funnily enough, I don't assign any blame at all to Draco. He was pressured into that position, and he wanted to save his family. I feel sorry for him more than anything

I blame Dumbledore, though I adore the guy. I mean Harry's been trying to put across the evilness in Snape. Haha. If there's really "evilness" in Snape.. Uh.. Nevermind. Hehe! Moving on. Dude! It really sucks! I mean he put so much trust in Snape, believing that he'd changed and turned good or something. And for doing that he dug-up his own grave. Poor old guy.

I can't blame Dumbledore for trusting Snape. Dumbledore must have had every confidence in Snape's word and commitment to the Order (makes you wish the Order had used Unbreakable Vow's doesn't it?)

I blame the person that broke the trust, that chose evil over good. He had been protected by Dumbledore all of that time and he blew his chance to help change the world.

I blame Voldemort for existing . If he didn't look at what we would have... all of these living characters and no plot!

just found this thread...I'll answer the questions from the 1st page..

I blame no-one for Dubledroe's death. I think Snape was told by Dumbledore to kill him, so I blame no-one...really

you cant blame anyone. blame is a very silly thing. you can never blame just one person for anything. life isnt like that. hes dead thats all there is to it. no matter who gets blamed he wont come back. so etehr no ones to blame or everyone is.

Wow. . Everyone has put quite an amount of thought into his or her answers! Particularly Pixymajic, outstanding list, helpful to read .
My answer however is quite unoriginal, I blame He Who Must Not Be Named because if Voldemort was not a power hungry, war monger and evil dictator then Dumbledore would not have died under the same circumstances. Every Death Eater fears his/her master who is setting tasks for them to complete; they do not care for the people who are in the path of their target and they have been able to develop their inhumane qualities under the 'management' of Voldemort. I blame Voldemort for allowing these hurt, fearful, power hungry people to become part of his destructive regime, for allowing these people to vent their anger in such a way.
Of course indirectly many people are to blame!

Someone said something interesting to me not long ago and although I do not believe in this view, it was interesting to hear:
When Dumbledore said 'please' to Snape before Snape cursed Dumbledore, he was pleading to Snape, asking him to kill him. ....... I do not understand why this would be so, but this was the view of one Harry Potter reader. . ? In this case, she was blaming Dumbledore. . . .

- Steph