It's over, Snape is evil

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 137994

"demetra1225" <tzakis1225 at n...> wrote:

> Harry certainly believes that he is
> an eyewitness to Snape killing
> Dumbledore. But is that *proof*? 

Eggplant:
>>If it is not proof then exactly what would be a proof of guilt? We see
Snape make an Unbreakable Vow to kill Dumbledore and then 600 pages
later we actually see him murder the man plain as day. What more do
want, what more could an author do to convince you? The evidence  that
Voldemort killed Lilly and James is very strong but much much less
strong than the evidence that Snape killed Voldemort, and if that's
not good enough then we should release all the prisoners in jail for
lack of evidence, every single one. 

CathyD:
The same proof that had Sirius Black in Akaban for 12 years after the *proof* of "more than fifty eye-witnesses."  The same *proof* that had Peter Pettigrew listed as dead.  The same *proof* that Scabbers was really just a rat.  The same *proof* that Barty Crouch, Jr, was dead.  Etc., etc. The author has clearly already told us that we can't always believe what we see.  The only *proof* that Snape killed Dumbledore is the eye-witness account of three Death Eaters, one wanna-be Death Eater, one Werewolf and Harry Potter (whose opinion of Snape is not coloured at all by anything that happened in the previous six years).

I'd say the evidence that LV killed James and Lily is just a little stronger as the Murderer himself has said he did it "I killed your father first and he put up a courageous fight ... but your mother needn't have died ... she was trying to protect you" and "his mother died in the attempt to save him -- and unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not forseen ..."  No eye-witness accounts there.  

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