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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 178079

> 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.

Alla:

Eh, okay. In RL, sure. To me not in the book verse. Harry saw him 
commit murder. I guess Voldemort is then technically an innocent man 
too? I doubt JKR planned to put him in front of the jury, Voldemort 
I mean.

Harry saw the murder. With explanation of that murder, we see that 
Snape is innocent, but without explanation? Not to me.


Pippin:  
> 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. 


Alla:

Yes, try to save an **innocent people**. I think that to demand from 
Harry that he would consider Snape an innocent for one second after 
the Tower is to demand way too much from Harry, but JMO of course.

I mean if all we saw between Snape and Harry was Snape tormenting 
Harry in school, then sure, I would still be not upset if Harry 
would not acted and happy that greasy git dead, but OMG after the 
Tower?

To demand from Harry that he would save the murderer? I think Harry 
had enough to take care of. I see no reason why Harry should have 
thought of Snape at that time any difference than Voldemort, Bella, 
or other DE? I see no difference if I were to look from Harry POV.



Pippin:
> 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.  
<SNIP>


Alla:

I guess time to agree to disagree then. There is absolutely nothing 
to forgive here for me. Harry was not making anybody to kill Snape, 
he was not even gleeing or anything like that, he was standing here 
in shock.

What part in his indecision played his hatred of Snape and what part 
if any his shock I do not know.

But even if Harry did not act **only** because he thought one DE was 
killing DE, I still think there is nothing to forgive whatsoever.

JMO,

Alla