Who killed Dumbledore? WAS: Re: Karmic justice in Potterverse again.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 144993

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
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> Are you saying you can logically  *rule out*  poison as the cause 
of death?
> That you KNOW he died of the shot?
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Well, do we KNOW that John F. Kennedy died of a gunshot wound?  Some 
people say he was sick that day in Dallas.  Maybe he had been 
poisoned by orders of Lyndon Johnson and was collapsing even as 
Oswald's shot hit him?  Perhaps the physicians and policemen were 
then co-opted into the conspiracy with bribes or threats?  I don't 
mean to be snarky, but the various theories about what "actually" 
happened on the tower have an eerie conspiracy theory/Oliver Stone 
feel to them.

The fact is that one can always come up with "possible" 
alternatives.  But that is why proof of guilt is NOT certain 
knowledge, but evidence that convinces beyond a reasonable doubt.  
And yes, based on that standard, I would say we know with great 
confidence that Snape killed Dumbledore.


Lupinlore, who will join kchuplis at the book burning with 
marshmallows if JKR resorts to some of the cheesy, contrived, and 
frankly silly scenarios that one might come up with