[HPforGrownups] A Cold Equation (was Re: The Trial Of Severus Snape)

Sherry Gomes sherriola at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 9 13:33:46 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 141333



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Subject: [HPforGrownups] A Cold Equation (was Re: The Trial Of Severus
Snape)


 
Carol wrote: 

So let me ask you again: If Snape had the choice of 1) dying from  the
broken UV and accomplishing nothing except endangering everyone  else,
with Dumbledore and Draco killed by the DEs, Harry in grave  danger,
and the DEs running all over Hogwarts OR 2) killing the  unsaveable
Dumbledore, saving Draco and Harry, and getting the DEs out  of
Hogwarts, wouldn't "2" be the better choice, or at least  an
understandable choice?

I'm only posing this question as a "what  if," not arguing that this
interpretation is the correct one.

*If*  Dumbledore could not be saved, and *if* the only way Snape could
save Harry  (and Draco) and get the DEs out of Hogwarts was to kill
Dumbledore, did Snape  really have a choice? 

And *if* he made the only possible choice, making  himself a murderer
to give Harry a chance of destroying Voldemort, doesn't he  deserve
forgiveness?






sherry:

No.  Well, i can't get the hypotheticals.  We don't know, and neither did
Snape, that Dumbledore was for sure dying.  We don't know how the
unbreakable vow would have manifested itself or when.  I'm not convinced
that the instant Dumbledore did not die, Sevvy would have dropped dead on
the spot.  He didn't take time to learn Dumbledore's condition or to learn
any other thing.  No.  He took out his weapon and committed murder.  Nothing
can or should justify it.  

As for Julie's Cold Equation  story, I can only say, if the pilot had been
James Kirk, he'd have found another way and not killed anyone!  LOL.  I can
never be convinced that a no win situation is truly no win.  There must be
another option.  Perhaps, I am too optimistic, but judging only on what we
were given on the tower, I cannot conceive of any situation except fake
death or self defense that would make Snape's actions forgivable.  It's all
in the fact that Dumbledore didn't sacrifice himself, but was killed at the
hand of someone else.  Dumbledore was slipping, if he wanted to save Draco
and Snape with his death--and Harry of course--he didn't need Snape to do it
for him.  

But then, I'm not Dumbledore, and I do not think death is the next great
adventure, neither do I fear it.  But I don't accept it easily when I lose
people I love.  "I am not resigned."  So, I just can't forgive Snape,
because there is nothing that makes murder a reasonable choice to me.
Perhaps it comes from my very personal knowledge that there are real
villains out there who would like the permission to "euphonize" old, sick or
disabled people.  I just see Dumbledore as an old man, still incredibly
powerful but sick.  He should have been rescued not betrayed and murdered.

Sherry





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