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

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> Sherry now:
> 
> I see it completely opposite.  Any idea that lets Snape off the 
hook,
> especially one that would make Harry the true killer has to do way 
too much
> snipping and shoving to make it believable or acceptable for me.  
Again,
> Harry is the hero.  Snape is not the hero.  Snape faking the AK to 
keep
> anyone from knowing that Harry had poisoned Dumbledore to death 
would make
> Snape the hero again.  But even more importantly, though I think  
that
> Harry, as the hero, has and can and must make mistakes, for Harry 
to be the
> one who actually killed Dumbledore by force feeding him the poison 
would be
> a sick miserable outcome.  Knowing all we do of how Harry thinks, 
does
> anyone believe he could live with such a horrible thing?  
> 
<SNIP>

Alla:

Well, I agree with you of course, you know that, but I want to back 
track here for a second. There had been so much talk here about the 
fact that Harry gave Dumbledore a  poison and that it is likely that 
it had been fatal. Okay, what am I missing here again? I thought we 
did not know for sure not only that the Potion was a fatal poison , 
but even that Potion was poison at all?

I mean, yes, it seems likely that it was poison, since Dumbledore 
called it no health drink, I absolutely disagree that it was fatal - 
IMO the fact that Dumbledore called Snape shows that he needed an 
antidote, BUT isn't it possible that there was some kind of 
different defensive dark magic at work after they got Horcrux and 
the reason why Dumbledore got so sick was because of some kind of 
Dark spell, not just potion itself?

In any event whether it was poison or not, I also seriously doubt 
that at the end Harry will add to his burdens the murder of 
Dumbledore. JMO of course, but that is another prediction which I 
want to make for book 7 - Harry did not kill Dumbledore, Snape did. 
Of course I will not be so foolish as to speculate about Snape 
reasons :-), but yeah, he did it. Mark my words. :)

Alla,

 has that nice tasty crow handy.