On lying and cheating/ Killing DD/ HBP potions book and diary

[amiabledorsai]

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> > Lealess:
> I have my doubts about the Avada Kedavra spell being genuine, or
> being the cause of Dumbledore's death.  

Amiable Dorsai:
Boy, much as I despise Snape, I hope you're wrong.  If Snape didn't
really kill Dumbledore, it cheapens the scene.  If Snape is really
DDM, a possibility I must reluctantly concede, killing his mentor and
only real supporter--at his mentor's request--is one of those supreme
moments of moral choice--it's Rick giving up Ilsa, or Huck Finn
deciding to go to hell than turn his friend Jim over to the slavecatchers.

If Snape is not DDM, then Dumbledore is undone by one of his own
greatest vitues--his willingness to forgive and to offer second chances.

Either way, it's one of the most powerful scenes in English literature.
  
If Rowling doesn't cheapen it, the Death of Dumbledore will be
discussed in literature classes for years.

Amiable Dorsai