Crookshanks/Snape/Werewolves-Lupin/DEs&TMR/Chapter12/Fidelius/LotsMoreStuff

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 149838

Catlady:
> << I would not now be surprised to learn that Dumbledore is the 
first
> man Snape has ever, personally, killed. >>
> 
> Consider Dumbledore's statement and Draco's demonstraction that
> 'Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe' (in which I
> understand 'innocent' to mean being virgin of killing, not to mean
> having an pure soul and untarnished heart). Then consider making a
> plan which depends upon your guy, who has never killed before, 
killing
> someone. Killing someone he loves and is supported by. Isn't that a
> bit of a gamble about whether your guy will turn out to be as far 
from
> being a killer as young Draco is?

zgirnius:
Oh, I think he's a lot closer than Draco is. (And I don't insist 
Snape is 'innocent' in this sense. Just saying that, for the first 
time, it would be credible to me after the revelations of HBP. His 
extremely bloody-minded behavior in PoA has taken on a different cast 
to me, and it was always the reason I had previously assumed Snape 
would as soon kill someone he dislikes as look at them.)

I am not, incidentally, a believer that there was a plan for Snape to 
kill Dumbledore. So I can add your argument to my list of reasons. It 
works reasonably well even if Snape *has* killed, and now has deep 
and sincere remorse about it. Or, at least, Dumbledore, the maker of 
the hypothetical plan, *believes* this.