Faked death or faked AK? (Was: The Truth about the 6th Harry Potter Book)

[Alison D]

No: HPFGUIDX 138122

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <> Sherry now:


> Sherry now:
> 
> i guess I see through the eyes of prejudice and hatred then.  
Though in my
> own defense, i tried, until that moment to believe in mean but 
still good
> Snape.  Dumbledore trusted him, so he must have been good.  I was 
shocked
> and horrified by the events on the tower, even though I didn't 
ever like
> Snape.  i still didn't want him to be ESE.  But for me, there's 
never an
> excuse to commit murder, coldly, casually, kill the one person who 
trusted
> you.  We don't know if Snape hated Dumbledore or not.  We were led 
to
> believe in his change of heart because of Dumbledore, and we have 
no way of
> knowing what he has been truly feeling all these years.  i just 
know that if
> someone walked up and without hesitation shot a loved one of mine, 
I'd never
> be convinced of the rightness or nobility or courage of such an 
act, no
> matter what the excuse.  Harry is completely justified in his 
feelings, in
> my opinion.  

Alison here:

If someone walked up to a person you loved and shot them without 
hesitation and not in defense of their or someone else's life 
then you would have an absolute reason to hate them, however I would 
imagine no matter the circumstances there would be 
feelings of at the very least resentment, but in Snape's case I must 
disagree with the phrase "without hesitation."  I believe Snape 
showed hesitation, which is why Dumbledore spoke to him again.  An 
act without hesitation on Snape's part would have involved walking 
onto the scene, quickly surveying Malfoy with his wand arm dropped 
and raising his to kill Dumbledore thereby fulfilling the 
requirements of his Unbreakable Vow. When in fact Snape surveyed the 
scene was spoken to by Dumbledore not once, but twice, before he 
apparently cast AK. Harry is justified in his feelings right now, 
because he like some readers is basing everything on what he 
believes he saw, which may or may not be the case.  Do I believe 
Dumbledore is dead, yes.  Do I believe what I read about on the 
tower is cut and dry, no.  There are too many parallels both in this 
book and the previous five that offer testimony to the contrary, and 
I believe many posts have pointed out a few already so I won't do 
that here.

Alison