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

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> Alla:
> Oh, I don't know, Susan. :o) While I want to believe that our dear 
> headmaster will not use ANY means to achieve desired ends, I tend 
to 
> believe that despite of all talking about "things worse than 
death", 
> he did not threw Avada at Voldie simply because he did not think he 
> would succeed.
> 
> I think he believes in prophecy. I hope the fact that he believes 
in 
> it so much will come back to hunt him at the end (like different 
> ending from what Dumbledore expects, whatever that is), but I think 
> he really truly believes that only Harry can kill Voldie.
> 


Neri:
I agree that DD believes his interpretation of the prophesy. That is, 
that only Harry can defeat Voldy. I also like Kneasy's 
bloodthirstiness, and I agree that DD is pretty ruthless and under 
some conditions won't have problems hiring an ex-killer as a teacher. 
However, I strongly believe DD will *never* use an Unforgivable "for 
a good purpose", even if he would have believed that he can kill 
Voldy. This is Lesson 1 from LOTR. Gandalf (or Aragorn or Galadriel) 
could have taken the ring and use it to defeat Sauron, but he would 
have just became another Dark Lord himself.

We see DD using the same philosophy in his strong dislike for the 
dementors, even when they were supposed to be on his side. Good 
wizards like Arthur Weasley had believed that the dementors will save 
them from DEs, but DD knew all along that the dementors are naturally 
evil, so they are bound to end up on the evil side one way or the 
other. IMO, DD knows that there's no point fighting the Dark Lord 
with evil methods.

Neri