Snape's Rage at Being Called Coward : No, just a coward

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 171909

Carol wrote:
I know that the simple answer is that Snape should have died defending
Dumbledore and the boys, but what good would it have done? DD would
have died anyway, Draco whom he had sworn to protect would have been
killed, and Harry, the only person who can vanquish Voldemort, would
have been killed or captured. (He couldn't outduel Snape, much less
four DEs at once, one of them a known child killer who would have
loved to eat him.)

vmonte responds:
I'm glad Lily didn't decide to just step aside and let Voldemort kill 
Harry. I mean, why would she step in front of Harry unless she thought 
he could die?  And surely she knew that stepping in front of him would 
sentence her to death as well. But she did it anyway.