Snape, A Murderer? (Was: Re: Is Wormtail an Occlumens or an open book?)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 95342

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" 
<severelysigune at y...> wrote:

> Sigune now:
> This is a very interesting discussion. My first thought would be 
to  agree with Carol's view, as she expressed it in other threads, 
that  Snape cannot be a murderer - this is not because I reason 
 sentimentally and would hate the thought of my favourite 
character  engaging in anything so terrible as murder, especially 
of innocent  Muggles. It is mainly because I cannot believe 
Dumbledore to  consciously hire a murderer as a teacher. That 
would be morally  totally unacceptable; and I don't believe in 
ESE!Dumbledore.<snip> However, for a Headmaster to entrust 
the students in his charge to a murderer - that  would be 
downright irresponsible.<<

If Dumbledore believes that Snape has truly repented and is no 
longer  willing to do murder in Voldemort's name, why shouldn't 
he trust him?  I don't believe Dumbledore (or Rowling) divides 
the world into people who are capable of murder and people 
who are not.

Pippin