Prank question - Lupin wanted Snape DEAD? Still don't quite buy it.

[Wolf Xavier]

No: HPFGUIDX 154238


Pippin:
>> If Dumbledore had caught them, maybe so. But Sirius and James were 
taking Lupin into Hogsmeade, where they had many close calls. If 
they'd been caught there, it would be the Ministry, not Dumbledore, 
who decided what to do with them. With Voldemort on the rise and 
Fenrir on the loose, they could well have been convicted of every 
unsolved werewolf attack on the books. <<

Wolf Xavier: 
  Excellent points.  I had not accounted for trouble Remus might get into regarding GREYBACK's possible predations.  Even so...  It still sounds like, in context of JKR's elegantly moral world, that it still would seem like "I could get into major trouble, better snuff Snape", no matter how it was more palatably phrased.  

  Consider the attitudes our heroic characters are given toward murder by JKR.  I point to PoA at the Shreiking Shack and the almost-execution of Peter Petigrew.  I say "execution" as that's how I would see it.  However, JKR has had her characters refer to it as murder.  Sirius, in particular, has FAR more reason to kill Peter by this point than Remus may have had to do Snape in back in the day.  And yet they do not.  All of their combined emotional baggage... imprisonment, betrayal, Lily and James DEAD...  And they still easily accept that it is wrong.