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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 154259

Wolf Xavier: 
> 
>   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.
>

Pippin:
Execution-style slayings are associated with gangsters and
terrorists in the real world. I don't think Rowling wants us to
admire Sirius and Lupin for trying it. They would have
done it if Harry hadn't stopped them, so I'm not sure how that
shows that Lupin wouldn't have plotted to murder Snape. He
had already placed his friends' happiness over the lives of 
innocent strangers by repeatedly going into Hogsmeade, 
so why should Snape's life matter so much? 

Not admirable at all, but Lupin has done a whole lot of things 
that aren't heroic besides the near gangland slaying of Pettigrew.
Failing to tell Dumbledore about Sirius, failing to turn in the 
Marauder's Map,, leaving Ron to suffer with his broken leg,
(and isn't it *interesting* that Lupin says he's not so good
with healing spells, now that we find out that Snape is) --
and failing to write to Harry before going on his
secret mission.

Wouldn't it be ironic if Harry thought Dumbledore was letting
admiration for the good in Snape blind him to evil, and all the 
time both Harry and Dumbledore were actually making that 
mistake about Lupin?

Pippin