SPOILERS [the_old_crowd] Re: HBP: spoiler rolling balls - Material for Ethics Class

[Aberforths Goat / Mike Gray]

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> For Snape is BRAVE and promised to do something for DD he 
> _didnt want to do_. Beware of his "blank unreadable stare". 
> Like you, I really thought ESE!Snape was in the bag on first 
> reading, but on second...I believe they (Snape & DD) saw this 
> coming. And I read Snape's parting shots to Harry in a 
> different light. He keeps trying to tell Harry that he must 
> be able to close his mind and not to signal his shots. Of the 
>  "new" stuff in HBP, the concept of non-verbal spells is most 
> intriguing.

Exactly. And that's what makes Harry's "go ahead and kill me, you
coward" thing so painful. (Honest. It hurts like heck to read that
passage.) My take is that Snape has been definitively outed as a GOOD
GUY - and a good guy who is going through hell. He killed Dumbledore
partly because (as Pippin points out) Dumbledore was already dying -
even more to keep Draco from becoming a murderer - and finally
Dumbledore had already ordered him to do so.

I think Harry's biggest task in the next book may be finding
reconcilliation with Snape, not killing ol' Voldie.

Incidentally: I don't think she did so on purpose, but Jo has set up a
classical test case for debate about euthanasia. Said test cases usually
consist of overfilled lifeboats and shark infested waters - and aren't
usually very convincing. This is one test case I find very believable.
In essence: is it wrong to kill a dying man (a) at his own fully
cognizant order, which itself aims at (b) keeping someone else from
murdering him. (I'm not saying which way a call it, btw., and I hope to
God I'll never have to make a call like that.)

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray) 
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"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, 
so that may not have been bravery...."