AK and guns- both unforgivable, and sometimes necessary!

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 167164

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> Carol responds:

> 
> It's better (IMO) to be decapitated by a guillotine, clean and quick,
> than to be hanged. It's better to be hanged, horrible as a death by
> strangulation would be, than to be drawn and quartered. Better to die
> from an AK than from a slow poison eating at your insides or an
> untransformed werewolf tearing at your throat or lying in a pool or
> your own blood from Sectumsempra.
> 
> I think that Snape chose the best and most humane means available to
> him, and I think, based on his closed eyes and composed features (he
> looks as if he's asleep) that Dumbledore knew that and forgave him.

Pippin:
AK may be painless and quick but I doubt that  it's peaceful. Frank
Bryce did not know he was about to die, he was screaming so loudly
(at the sight of Voldemort's fetal form) that he never heard the words 
that killed him, and yet his shade is not at rest. "Killed me, that 
one did....You fight him, boy....."

I think the AK is powered by more than the intent to kill. I think it
is powered by hate, and even Moody's spider could feel it. "almost
as though it knew what was coming, the third spider scuttled 
frantically around the bottom of the jar, trying to evade Moody's
fingers, but he trapped it and placed it on the desk top."

Dumbledore might have been reconciled to die, but I don't think
he would be reconciled to hatred. If he had died seeing genuine hatred in
Snape's eyes would he have died in peace?


Pippin
thinking it's important to recognize that whether DDM!Snape actually
killed Dumbledore in order to fool the DE's or only pretended to do it,
it was still a ruse.