It's over, Snape is evil /Ruthless Dumbledore?

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 138480

Colebiancardi:
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So, without bringing Snape into the argument, what is so unbelievable 
about DD asking to die for the greater good of the Order? 
 
Alla:

That is  PRECISELY what is not believable to me. I believe that JKR 
hits us  very strongly with " murder hurts the soul" metaphor and
that is why it is not believable to me ( only my opinion of course) 
that "epitome of goodness" would ask anybody to hurt their soul for
any purpose.
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The Barmaid now:

I guess that depends on how you define murder.  I could never equate 
killing someone who has asked you, maybe even ordered you, to do it -- 
someone who is most likely dieing anyway -- with the sort of cold 
blooded murders we know Tom Riddle has committed.  How could these 
result in the same sort of damage to a soul?  I honestly would not 
call what it seems to me Snape did "murder."  AND even if it 
is "murder" I can not imagine that Snape's soul is not already 
seriously damaged -- whereas Draco, nasty piece of work that he is, 
has not yet committed murder, has not damaged his soul in this way -- 
may still have the chance to avoid such damage.  DD would want to give 
Draco the chance to avoid that damage – if he knows he must die at one 
or the other of their hands then Snape's it must be.

  -- The Barmaid (who actually is not sure about Snape, but is 
inclined at this point to see him as DD's man)