[HPforGrownups] Have Snape ever killed anybody before? WAS: Re: seeds of betrayal

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 149814

--- justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Why would LV bother to train you Severus Snape, 
>so obviously intelligent and multi-talented, to do the 
>work that others could do? Why not assign him to invent 
>spells and make potions (including poisons)? And, most
>important, who better than this young master of both the 
>Dark Arts and Healing, who had invented both SectumSempra
>and, AFWK, its countercurse, to help LV pursue *earthly* 
>mortality? He had his Horcruxes to protect his soul, but 
>what good was a protected soul if his body was subject to aging, 
>disease, poison, or corruption?
>
>Speculation, yes, but look at DD's view of Snape in HBP 
>and the uses to which he puts him and consider what LV 
>would want to do with a young man of such unusual talents. 
>*Not*, IMO, send him out into the field to torture and kill, 
>which any DE could do (especially fanatics like Bellatrix 
>and Barty Jr. and sadists like Dolohov and the would-be
>hippogriff killer, Macnair), when he could be of so much 
>use in other ways?

Exactly: like going to Hogwarts to teach DADA and learn from
Dumbledore - the collaborator of Nicholas Flamel, let us recall - how
to make a Philosopher's Stone which grants immortal life.

Magda

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