On the perfection of moral virtues--Snape, the shack, and unilateral authority

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 169070


> Alla:
> 
> I think this is related to the question I asked in another thread. 
> Could you give some canon that Snape would be a hero for killing 
> Sirius? Not for capturing, but for killing. Is there any indication 
> in the books that people were allowed to use lethal force against 
> Sirius Black and not just being not sent to Azkaban, but rewarded 
> for it.

zgirnius:
It seems a reasonable inference, given that Sirius had been sentenced 
to summary Kissing upon his capture, a sentence that the Dementors were 
free to carry out without any further instructions from a government 
representative. And from his description in public communications of no 
less that the Minister for Magic himself as "a danger to anyone who 
crosses him, magic or Muggle". Surely, if Snape had insisted he was a 
danger to him and three Hogwarts students, one of whom had already had 
his leg broken by Black, Fudge would not have argued the point.