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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 171920

Carol earlier:
> 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 replied:
> 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.
>
Carol responds:
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds as if you think
that Snape should have just stepped in front of Dumbledore and said,
"Don't kill Dumbledore. Kill me instead."

Somehow, I don't think his sacrifice would have given the dying
Dumbledore the blood protection that Harry's mother's death gave
Harry, who shares her blood. Lily's sacrifice is depicted as being
unique. It could not be recreated by Snape stepping in front of
Dumbledore (or Harry stepping in front of Ron, for that matter).

In any case, DD was already dying, and, as I interpret his words, he
wanted Snape to kill him. How was DD, wandless and too weak even to
stand, supposed to protect Harry and Draco from the DEs and get the
DEs out of Hogwarts? I doubt that they would have obeyed him. Snape
was the only one who could save the boys. Nothing could have saved the
dying DD, not with the DEs present, ready to kill DD if Draco or Snape
didn't, and no time for Snape to figure out what the green poison was
and brew the appropriate antidote.

Carol, noting that if blocking an AK aimed at someone else were all it
took to create blood protection and transfer the powers of the caster
to the would-be killer, Lily's sacrifice would not be unique to the
Potterverse