It's over, Snape is evil (but maybe not 100%)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 138436

Eggplant:
s that's true, in fact the only hope Snape lovers have is if
> Dumbledore is not really dead and the entire climax of book 6 was
all just a colossal hoax or practical joke; but if we learn in book 7
that it's true then millions of people will be storming bookstores
demanding their money back. There is no way a plot twist like that
could produce a satisfactory book. 

Pippin:
The death does not have to be a hoax for the murder itself to be
faked.Jo's bookshelves reveal her to be a Christie fan.  I can't tell
you how many  times Agatha Christie had the cause of death turn 
out to be other than what it appeared to be. She's still a best
seller 
years after her death and no one is asking for their money back. 

Certainly in a Christie novel  a character who ingested *anything*
shortly before death might turn out to have been poisoned, 
let alone a preparation concocted by the most evil dark wizard in a 
hundred years.

Eggplant: 
> 
> I confess at the moment I have no viable theory what that argument
was all about, but it doesn't matter that we don't know what noises
Dumbledore and Snape made with their mouths on that occasion because
it can't change the fact that Snape murdered Dumbledore and that
makes Snape a villain. End of story.

Pippin:
It either means  something, or Jo is cheating. Even a red
herring has to have an explanation of some kind. 

Pippin

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not more so." --
Einstein