Could Harry have saved Snape? (was Reacting to DH...)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 178077

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> Alla:
> 
> Well, I disagree. NOT with every life worth saving, but with that is
> somehow not right for someone who thinks that other person is DE and
> murderer to not save that person.
> 
> Frankly, I would indeed only expect that from the Saint. But that is
> just me of course.
> 
> Again, would you expect Harry to try and save Bella? 


Pippin:
She was taken alive after the attack on the Longbottoms. So someone
tried to save her, no doubt at great personal risk.

 Snape was, technically, an innocent man no matter what Harry
saw him do.
  
There is a moral obligation, I would say, to try to save innocent people,
and to presume that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. I hope
that Harry the Auror believes that and has learned from his experience
that he is not the judge of guilt or innocence. 

I forgive him for not acting, because I think  all the murders
he had seen through Voldie-vision gave him a sort of learned 
helplessness. But I don't think there's nothing to forgive.  
 
Alla:
> It would have been nice if he did that, but why would he? Just as I 
> think it would have been nice if Harry did that, but not find it 
> wrong.
> 

Pippin:
Snape did rescue Sirius from exposure to the dementors. He will
have known he was not going to get any great reward for it --
what good is an Order of Merlin going to do him when he knows
that eventually he will have to go back and spy on LV?

I think he did it because he thought it was right, or at least,
on reconsideration, that he was not the person to decide Sirius's
fate. 

> Alla:
> 
> So do not want to start this debate again, I will just say briefly
> that YES if Dumbledore seen with his eyes - NOT heard from anybody
> else that Sirius killed thirteen people, I would not held it that
> much against him.

Pippin:
It is very possible that Dumbledore saw what happened through
pensieve memories, but Peter was clever enough that no one
would have understood what he did even if they were looking right
 at him.

Pippin