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

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Tonks wrote:
<HUGE SNIP>
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??
<SNIP>

Alla:

Stands up and gives Tonks round of applauds. Now THAT wish I 
understand, such Snape I can see in canon and even though we 
disagree on how Snape loyalties will turn out in the end, if he 
turns out DD!M of with the past as you describe, I WILL buy his 
redemption, since such Snape indeed had done the horrible deeds and 
needs to be redeemed from them.

> > Alla:
> > 
> > Yep, that's a million dollar question for me too. Why would Snape
> > fans ( well, I am a Snape fan too, but as a villainous, dark, 
dark
> > character, so I am not counting myself here) want Snape to not do
> > anything terrible? What kind of redemption that would be? 
Wouldn't
> > one want such character to travel to the depths of hell before he
> > gets redeemed? Only then that would be truly meaningful 
redemption
> > in my book.
> > 
> 
> Pippin:
> Arranging the death of someone to whom you owe your life, plus 
> his  wife who defended you from bullies,  and their infant son
> sounds pretty bad to me. Not to mention all the poisons Snape
> could have prepared or the curses he could have taught to others.

Alla:

Wow, Pippin. This is the post I am truly tempted to bookmark. :-)

Yes, "arranging the death of someone to whom you owe your life..." 
sounds pretty bad to me too. As long as this is not called a minor 
indiscretion of poor Snape who was not really understanding what is 
going to happen to the couple of the Prophecy and their child, but 
exactly what it is. - "arranging the death". So,let me ask again. 
THIS Snape had never killed anybody? 

So, just to be clear - when I am arguing my 99.99% conviction that 
Snape killed before he came to Dumbledore and maybe afterwards too, 
I am not saying that he could only kill with Avada Kedavra. 
Preparing poisons, which kill sounds like killing people to me.

I can live with your way of how Snape killed people, absolutely.

Alla