Did Snape kil DD? WAS: Re: PoA - Snape knew?/Who is the real dark character in the series

[Bart Lidofsky]

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lupinlore wrote:
> Yes, if Snape's spell was the proximate cause of of DD's death, he not 
> only killed Dumbledore, he murdered him in every legal and moral 
> sense. 

Bart:
Interestingly enough, in the last episode of ER, a possibly analogous 
situation was covered. There was a man who was dying of injuries 
sustained in a plane crash. He was being kept alive and conscious via 
CPR, but, as soon as the CPR was withdrawn, he would die. The doctors 
administered the CPR until he could say goodbye to his family, and then 
stopped, allowing him to die.

If Dumbledore was in a state of temporarily "stoppered" death, where he 
could no longer heal, then, after the last horcrux, he was on his last 
legs anyway. Assuming this (and I admit it's a big assumption), then it 
becomes a question of euthanasia vs. "pulling the plug". Since this is a 
children's book, I frankly don't expect JKR to go into such fine points; 
at most, it's probably "Dumbledore was dead (or as good as) already, and 
he used Snape in order to choose a time and means of death as to do the 
most good."

	Bart