Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151203163126/@comment-6175354-20151203180120

Hmcooper4 wrote: Remember that (** Spoiler Alert **) Snape also killed someone in the books (though it could be argued that it wasn't murder, it looked like murder to everyone else). It was explicitly stated in the books, that Snape did not actually commit murder. It was a planned  mercy killing for a dying man, to save the soul of a teenage boy.