[HPforGrownups] Re: Requiescat in Pace, My Dark Phoenix

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 151338

zgirnius:
I could be wrong, of course, because I do not subscribe to the view that
DDM!Snape is a murderer...but I think Talisman's theory puts an interesting
twist in the scenario. 

Because if Unbreakable Vows are truly Unbreakable, and act quickly once
broken, Snape (who looks like Dumbledore) is about to die anyway, at any
moment, when Dumbledore (who looks like Snape) shows up. And Dumbledore
knows this. (There's no way they would have cooked up this plan between them
if Dumbledore did not know ALL about Snape's Unbreakable Vow, right?) The
ONLY way Dumbledore could actually save Snape at this moment would be to
have himself killed (by either Snape or Draco). SO I really don't see how
this makes Dumbledore a murderer.

But there REALLY is no way out of Snape dying by Unbreakable Vow alomst
imeediately, if Snape does not kill Dumbledore.


Sherry:

I don't consider that an excuse to commit murder.  Snape knew what an
unbreakable vow was, but he still took it.  When the time came, he could
have died, rather than kill the one person we know who absolutely had full
confidence in him.  Yeah, I know, then the death eaters, and the werewolf
... but I don't believe Dumbledore couldn't have done something.  Of course,
that isn't how it happened, so we will never know what Dumbledore could have
done.  But then, neither do we have proof that Dumbledore, Harry, Draco and
countless others would have died if Snape hadn't killed Dumbledore.  

Sherry