Malice and Ulterior Motives

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 138810

> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Not because Dumbledore is old and weak and "needs to be done away 
> with".  Because, once he arrives on the tower, Snape has only two 
> choices.  See post 138769.
> 
> You say the only way Snape can keep from damaging his soul is to 
let 
> himself, Dumbledore, possibly Draco, Harry, Trelawney, and others 
die 
> at the hands of the Death Eaters.  That's your personal feeling--
and 
> you have a perfect right to hold it--but it is not supported by 
> text.


Alla:

Erm... That is not what I said. " Snape killing Dumbledore equals 
Snape hurting his soul" does not imply that Snape should let other 
people die.

It only implies that Snape should not kill Dumbledore, IMO.

So, since I did not say that, I agree with you - it is no supported 
by text.

What IS supported by text, IMO only, is that killing is bad for your 
soul.



Houyhnnnm: 
> *My* personal feeling, and one which I think has a lot more support
> in canon, is that Snape's soul has been in much greater peril from 
> his inability to care about other people, than from some 
legalistic 
> technicality about performing an AK, *if* the only way he can save 
> many other lives is by sacrificing Dumbledore.

Alla:

Again, could you please not subscribe to me something which I did 
not say?

Snape's inability to care about other people is IMO exactly what 
eventually led him to kill Dumbledore . Namely the fact that Snape 
was desperately clinging to his own life.

Nowhere did I say anything about "legalistic technicality about 
performing AK"

As far as I am concerned, Snape was not brave enough to meet his 
next great adventure with head held high ( what Harry thinks about 
the last battle).

Maybe Snape wants to help good guys, maybe he does not, but I don't 
think the means he choose for that if he does, are justified.




Houyh 
> Oh well, I'm never going to turn a Calvinist into a Universalist.  
> You have a right to your opinion and I have a right to mine.


Alla:

Indeed.


JMO,

Alla