Snape's Remorse: another erratum

[eloise_herisson]

Just realised that I used the totally non-sensical term "British Law" 
which betrays my lack of expertise on the subject. ;-) I still believe 
Snape could have been directly accused of attempted murder, however, 
whatever the circumstances.

I think this from Pip very interesting:

>>The term is 'ruse de guerre', and it's legitimate in law. The
killing someone who is already dying is a case of 'novus actus
interveniens' - did Snape's act break the chain of causation? If
there's a reasonable probability Dumbledore was already dying, and
had reached the point where nothing could save him, then - it
didn't. And thus it was not murder.<<

It's a case of circumstances altering cases, as if you intentionally 
kill someone you know is dying and cannot be helped in other 
circumstances (eg terminal illness) it is still murder. 

~Eloise