'Deathbed Confession' / Ron's H-H insecurity/Did Severus Murder/Did DD Like

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:

> > Zanooda wrote in
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183142>:
 
> > Just out of curiosity, how do you know that Snape committed 
> > murder? 


> Catlady wrote:
 
> I believe Voldemort required all his Death Eaters to commit
> a murder (as part of a group of murderers)


zanooda:

Oh, I know that some readers believe that. There is nothing wrong with
believing :-)! The problem is, the poster I was responding to didn't
write "I believe", like you did. So I assumed that I missed some
reference to Snape murdering someone either in the books (not likely
:-)), or in some JKR's interview (very likely :-)). That's why I asked
the question. Now I know it was just an opinion, so it's OK - I didn't
miss anything :-)!

As for what *I* believe - I'm not sure that every aspiring Death Eater
was required to murder to join. This would turn off some of LV's
supporters who liked his pure-blood ideology, but didn't see LV for
what he really was. If some basically decent and idealistic kid, like
Regulus, dreamed to join the cause, wouldn't it turn him off if the
first thing he was asked to do was to go and murder someone in cold
blood? I'm just not sure.

I agree that Snape making poisons for LV makes him responsible for any
deaths that occurred because of that, but still, it's not the same
thing as murdering someone directly. I also believe that Snape could
kill someone in a battle (there was a war going on, after all), but I
don't consider this "murder". And I think that Snape could avoid even
this, considering his ability to "slither out of action". I also want
to say that there is practically no canon on this matter, so everyone
is free to believe whatever he/she wants :-)!