Gods, that scene on the stairs was so sweet and kind of where my statement that the R/Hr and H/G ships make sense as high school ships but long term H/Hr shines through. Because they're both interested in other people yeah, but they're clearly the ones who have a deeper connection.

Completely agree. For me they have the strongest connection of any two charcters in the whole Saga.

It was I think fairly deliberately vague about whether Dumbledores "Please" was a "please kill me" or a "please don't kill me" but I have to confess I thought Snape had turned traitor on the good guys for a while. And just confusing and surprising all around.

Yeah it was confusing and vague, hence my question about it.

But yeah, Snape was working for Dumbles. D. knew the horcrux outing would probably kill him and he was already dying from the hand thing (not that that's clear in the movie either) so he knew Snape would have to kill him off. I remember part of it was to save Malfoy, but I think there was probably more, but I'm drawing a blank on it.

See I thought part of it might have been to somehow save Malfoy from commiting murder.

As for the hand thing with Dumbles...well that was just plain odd in the movie cause there was no explanation for it at all.