[HPforGrownups] Re: What would a successful AK mean?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 142869

lealess said:

>Picking up on No. 2, why use an AK? Because it seems to be a quick
>and therefore perhaps painless way to kill, especially in a situation
>that called for a rapid response. This follows the greater good
>defense for an AK, the soldier following orders in a time of war, the
>man cornered into making an impossible choice. If the killing was
>done to put Dumbledore out of some misery, i.e., a mercy killing, a
>quick and perhaps therefore painless death is also a good choice.
>Neither of these makes Snape into an evil person.

Antosha:

And, of course, one must take into account the situation: Snape is standing
in front of a 
group of Death Eaters who EXPECT him to use the Killing Curse to dispatch
the 
headmaster. If Snape is on the side of the good (and that's how I'm
leaning--this week), 
then short of faking it (and I think that's highly unlikely), there really
wasn't anything else 
he could have done.

It is good to remember that, like police officers who are authorized to use
deadly force 
under certain circumstances, the Aurors have been allowed to use Avada
Kedavra. It clearly 
isn't seen as a surefire soul-destroyer or a sign that one is absolutely
Dark. It's just... 
Unforgivable.




Sherry now:

i can't let this one pass.  police officers go to prison if they kill their
captain or brother officers.  Soldiers do not get medals for killing their
own generals!  Neither of these arguments makes sense to me.  If Snape offed
the *enemy's* leaders, that's completely different.  You just don't kill
your own people and get away with it.  Even accidental so-called friendly
fire killings in the military are investigated.  As for The death eaters
being there, that is the time for Snape to come out of hiding and declare
himself to be DDM.  Not to kill his leader in a cowardly self-preserving
act.

I won't comment on so-called mercy killing either because that is just way
too hot a topic for me, at least to engage in.  Sigh.

As for it being too boring to make Snape evil in the end, to me, it would be
quite refreshing.  We've been set up to believe that Snape is mean and evil
and so to believe he isn't really.  So, to make him evil, whether it's out
for himself in true Slytherin fashion, or Voldemort's true disciple, if he's
evil it isn't what most people have expected.  It would also have the great
effect of making Harry right all along, at last!  And since Harry is the
true hero of the books, I'd love to see him be right.

Sherry