Harry's arrogance /Evil Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154336

> Pippin:
> My theory is that Snape did not take Dumbledore's life, he 
> didn't try to defend it, and used a ruse to make it seem that he
> had taken it. Are you saying that's far-fetched when we know
> that there have been fake deaths in canon? 
> 
> Or are you saying that it  would be wrong? If so,  was it wrong for 
> Lily to leave James  to his fate and try to flee with Harry? I don't
think  JKR is going there.
> 
Carol notes:
Or, assuming that DD really is dead, was it wrong to kill dumbledore
if that was the only way to get Harry off the tower? (Snape would have
seen the second broom and deduced that Harry was there in his
Invisibility Cloak.) If the choice was not between Snape's own life
and Dumbledore's but between Harry's life and Dumbledore's, was it
wrong to choose Harry? (DD would have been killed by the DEs in any
case, but Harry would only have died if he had rushed out to fight
them four on one, or five if Draco joined in on their side.)

To repeat, *if* Snape's choice was between killing Dumbledore and
Harry's almost certain death fighting four DEs (and Draco, if he
joined in), surely the correct choice was to save Harry?

Carol, pretty sure that Harry would not have survived Book 6 if Snape
had not showed up