[HPforGrownups] Re: CIAO DOLCE VITA (Longish)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 135834

bboyminn:

I'm glad you said killed rather than murdered. Yes, I think Snape
killed Dumbledore, but I think it was indeed because he saw that
Dumbledore was already near dead and in the process of dying. Snape
simply seized the opportunity to make Dumbledore's death work for him,
and put him (Snape) in the strongest possible position to EVENTUALLY
bring down Voldemort. 

It really doesn't need to be any more complicted than that; no 'kill
me' Unbreakable Oaths, or any other such nonsense. Certainly,
Dumdledore may have foreseen his own death coming. He may have even
been slowly dying from the 'dead hand' curse. He and Snape may have
discussed the possibilities. But in the end, Snape simply saw a dying
Dumbledore and made the stituation work to his advantage.

So, relative to Dumbledore's death, Snape is hardly innocent, he may
even be guilty of manslaughter, but I don't think, in the end, anyone
will find him guilty of murder. And hopefully, in the end, they will
understand why he did what he did and forgive him.





Sherry now:

I don't know about the characters in the wizarding world, but there is no
excuse, unless Dumbledore faked his death, that would ever let Snape off the
hook, for me, anyway.  He murdered Dumbledore.  For whatever reason, whether
some cockeyed noble plan, mercy killing, saving Draco, saving his own
worthless skin, keeping his cover, or just for his own whims,  to me, it's
just plain murder.  Nothing would ever be a believable or acceptable excuse.
I wonder if it ever would be to Harry?  Consider that because of Snape
rushing off to spill the beans about the prophecy, Harry's parents are dead,
Sirius spent 12 years in Azkaban ... will Harry ever be able to forgive or
even come close to understanding any plan or motive that could even try to
justify Snape's actions on the tower that night?  It will be interesting to
find out, if that is what happens in book 7.  Personally, I hope not.
Deliberately murdering Dumbledore for a supposedly noble purpose seems to go
so against everything else in the books.  It would be a huge disappointment
for me.  But I'm not one to say that because an author doesn't do what I
like in a book, it's not well done.  I may not like it, but that's ok, too.
I just wish book seven was out now, so we could all find out!  Of course, if
Snape is to be redeemed, it could come in book seven through some other
means, but murdering Dumbledore was not the act of a man who has sought
redemption of any kind.



Sherry