Snape's Remorse

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> Pippin:
> "Judge" Hall,   a real life lawyer, instructed the Accio jury that if
> they believed that Dumbledore had died as a result of the Avada
> Kedavra curse, either directly or by being blasted off the tower,
> they must vote to convict. If they believed that there was a
> reasonable chance that he had died of poisoning, then they must 
> vote to acquit.  The judge said if you thought it was  80/20 
> AK/poisoning, that was enough for reasonable doubt. Snape got 
> off.
>

Neri:
In this case I must question the process of assembling this jury. If
they said that there was a 20/80 chance of Dumbledore dying of the
poisoning during the 3 seconds in which he was sailing off the tower,
this implies they were 100% sure he would have died of the poisoning
during the next 12 seconds if he weren't blasted. Considering he was
already surviving for many minutes after the poisoning, I'd say
someone was using something other than realistic judgment here. 
 
> Pippin:
> Of course he was betrayed by an ally he trusted! The ally who was 
> running Draco, the one who arranged for the party of Death Eaters to 
> assemble at Borgin and Burkes, the one whom he had been warned 
> time and again might betray him, the one who had twice broken faith 
> in the past and was awarded an unprecedented and, I am sorry to say, 
> undeserved *third* chance, the one for whom Dumbledore, out of a 
> combination of personal sympathy and political expedience, recklessly 
> did what was easy rather than what was right. 

Neri:
Am I to understand that in Accio 2006 they'll be convicting ESE!Lupin
of murdering Dumbledore? <g>

> Pippin: 
> <snip> But Dumbledore regarded Snape's
> mission as more important than his own life.

Neri:
Erm... does this mean we're back from
Dumbledore-botching-his-own-fake-assassination to
Dumbledore-asking-Snape-to-finish-him-off?

> Pippin:
> I believe that Fawkes will eventually prove to Harry that Snape is
> loyal. Once he realizes that, he will be able to figure everything
> else out.

Neri:
This is a bit too much fawkes ex machina for me. If Jo is going for
innocent!Snape I sincerely hope she has in store something more
convincing than Dumbledore dying of poisoning during falling off the
tower.

Neri