Unbreakable Vows/ DD death

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No: HPFGUIDX 165588

> Neri:
> I think you need to make up your mind whether Dumbledore was
> "temporarily alive" or "already been killed". These are not a same
> thing at all, you know. Killing a man who has yet one month to live
> (or a day or an hour) is still murder. I don't see JKR justifying
> murder in her books because the victim was just temporarily alive. We
> are all just temporarily alive.
> 
> So are you saying DDM!Snape made the Vow because he thought Dumbledore
> would die anyway before there will be need to kill him, but when the
> moment had finally arrived, it turned out that Dumbledore was not
> quite dead yet, so Snape had to help him a bit along his way?
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Alla:

Heee, yes, I agree. That is also why in a way I also believe that she 
would not make DD die only from poison, if that makes sense.

Sure, it would make for compelling story as well ( DD dying from poison 
that Harry fed him - DD orders or not), but unless we will be presented 
with fake AK, which I am not buying at all, at the moment that Snape 
fires AK, DD is still **alive**, temporarily or not.

So, I do not see JKR reliving Snape of responsibility for making sure 
that DD is not alive anymore, whether cave drink was deadly poison or 
not.

At the most, I can see her DD dying from both reasons, but I sure hope 
not of course.

JMO,

Alla