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

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 149819

Part of me wants to think that Snape never killed before he killed 
DD.  On the other hand, I like to think of him as a fully competent 
adult DE, which means that he isn't a virgin.  For this type of man, 
a man of power, a man the other Death Eaters respect and may even 
fear, he will have had to kill before. He has to really KNOW the 
dark side, all of it.  I want my Snape to not be naive in any way.  
He is a man of the world, the Dark World.  He knows what evil lurks 
in the hearts of men; he knows what evil lurks in his own heart.  He 
is one of the most powerful and competent wizards in the WW.  He is 
not afraid of the Dark.  He knows the Darkness.  He knows how to use 
it.  He is almost as powerful as DD, and perhaps more powerful and 
shred than LV.

Also to be redeemed Snape must have something seriously evil to be 
redeemed from.  Not as bad and psychopathic as LV perhaps.  But it 
is a shallow redemption if he is little different than the bad boy 
next door.  To show the true and complete depth of redeeming Love, 
Snape has to have done an act that was not just misunderstood, not 
just the wrong place and wrong time sort of thing.  Snape must have 
done something that he "Chose" to do and that choice resulted in the 
death of someone other than DD.   Love in its very highest form 
would redeem LV himself.  If there is going to be a redemption of 
some sort then to truly show the height of Love Snape must have 
killed someone in cold blood when he first joined the DE.  Maybe it 
was his mean, abusive father??

Which brings me to a question that I was going to pose before:  
Snape is a young man.  Yet during the summers, he lives in his 
parents home, alone.  What happened to them?  Did his father murder 
his mother and then Snape killed him??  Not enough time left in the 
series to bring that in, so probably not.  But I would think that if 
LV himself is not going to be redeemed, then Snape has to be even 
more of a bad boy than we have seen so far for the redeeming Love 
theme to work.  

Tonks_op