[HPforGrownups] The Trial Of Severus Snape

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 141312

My point is if any, heck, maybe even ALL these arguments were true 
would you consider the mitigating factors? Would the explanations, no 
matter how far fetched, if proved true, soften your judgement?
Or would you really condemn him to Azkaban no matter how heroic his 
actions were proven under harsh circumstances?

Not trying to change your mind, just wondering about Sevvie's trial and
how harshly the jury would come down if he survives book 7
Elyse



Sherry now:

No, it would not change my mind.  Snape's usefulness as a spy is gone now
anyway because he murdered Dumbledore.  If I had to put a value on any life,
even Snape's which I am morally against making one life more valuable than
another, but to me, if one or the other is more important to the war effort
and to Harry, it is Dumbledore and not Snape.  Snape was a coward not to
declare himself, if he was DDM, and letting Dumbledore die, and actively
helping the process along is reprehensible.  His service in the war is not
worth the price of losing Dumbledore.  A soldier goes to prison for killing
his general, no matter how noble he thinks his motives may be for that
action.  If Snape did indeed kill Dumbledore--not some elaborate hoax and DD
still alive--then no matter what the mitigating circumstances, he deserves
prison.  Only self defense could change my mind, and DD wasn't about to kill
Snape.  So, sorry, no.  If Snape killed Dumbledore, nothing will make that
right to me.  I don't want Sevvy to be the hero of the books in the end.
it's Harry's story, and i want him to be victorious, not diluted by the
great Severus Snape, the murderer.

Sherry