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

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 138481


The Barmaid wrote:
> 
> 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.  

zgirnius:
I agree. The "DD would never ask Snape to murder him" posts have had 
me puzzled...

The Barmaid again:

>AND even if it 
> is "murder" <snip> if he knows he must die at one 
> or the other of their hands then Snape's it must be.

zgirnius:
Or maybe not even Draco. Suppose that Snape had acted as many Snape 
detractors suggest he ought to have, by fighting openly in defense of 
Dumbledore against the DEs. Maybe Draco then stays out of it, maybe 
Snape gets some help, maybe the UV waits long enough to kick in that 
Snape can take care of a few of the DEs before he dies, and 
Dumbledore is saved. What happens next? Well, perhaps DD then goes on 
to die of the poison Harry fed him in the cave.

If Snape killing DD at DD's own request is a murder, logically, it 
follows that Harry in this scenario would have committed a murder 
himself. So under the hypothesis that such a killing is murder, DD 
may be looking at a choice between making Harry or Snape a murderer...