What would a successful AK mean?/One interesting perspective

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 142906

KJ:
>     One of the reasons for being completely dumb-struck at this
scene in 
> the tower is that I understood the fact of Snape's guilt immediately
and 
> what that decision had just cost him. [snip] I couldn't believe that
JKR had done it to him. 
> Bad enough that she made him ugly, greasy, and nasty, now she removes 
> any chance of redemption other than at the cost of his life. I'm sorry, 
> but I find that I can live without Sirius, the loss of Dumbledore was 
> quite bearable, and I'm quite looking forward to the demise of
Volemort, 
> even at the expense of Harry. I really feel sorry for Snape.:)

Dude.  The first thing I said to myself when I closed the book was,
"Oh my God.  Poor Snape."  I think it must have been what Sirius fans
felt at the end of OoP-- "you mean he just got more and more depressed
and then he DIED?!"  I gotta hand it to JKR-- she is simply rutheless
in putting her characters through the worst things she can think of.