Snape getting off scott freeWAS: Re: Harry Forgiving Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 162897

> Dungrollin:
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> Even then, if all the information was available and it was obvious 
> to everybody that Snape had been acting for the greater good, he 
> should still be punished. Killing is killing, and he deliberately 
> took a man's life with an illegal curse. 
> 
> It's not because I think the punishment would do him any good, 
> neither is it because I think he would deserve it, but because if 
> you let Snape off this time, who knows who might be let off by 
> mistake next time? If you do it for a good reason this time, you 
> open the door to doing it for a bad reason next time; it 
compromises 
> the process of justice.
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Alla:

Well,yes, if we are making RL comparison, I can see the rationale. 
Orders or no orders, one should take at least take some 
responsibility for the killing.

It is just if we are talking about punishment in story like this, it 
seems to me that the **technical** guilt would not be 
punished,contrary to RL, that JKR would only want to punish Snape if 
he is truly guilty in his heart of hearts, hehehhe ( see another 
thread).

Does that make sense? I suppose that we are again facing the question 
whether unforgivable itself is worthy of punishment. (RE: never 
ending question what is dark magic).

But if Snape acted with the best intentions, followed DD orders, etc, 
in Potterverse what should he be punished for?

I mean, again no punishment is big enough for him in mind, but our 
versions of Snape are differing a lot :), so if we are strictly 
looking at him as fiction without comparison with RW justice system, 
what should Heroic Snape and martyr for the cause be punished for?

I mean, in his heart of hearts he was only following DD orders and I 
suppose he really resisted that, it is all Dumbledore fault. :)
It should all be magic that way and he should get his reward.


Alla:
> <snip>
> > Otherwise it seems to me that Dumbledore should go to Azkaban, 
not 
> > Snape who after all was only following Dumbledore's orders.

Dungrollin: 
> Lol! I can just see Mad-Eye Moody sternly telling Dumbledore's dug-
> up corpse that he is under arrest for his own murder! But I'm not 
> sure that JKR really approves of the Nuremberg defence; I certainly 
> don't. 

Alla:

I am not fond of that defense as well. I would never ever blame the 
victim, I blame the murderer. :)