Re: My $ 0.02
(Anonymous)
Good points! It just seemed confusing to me that Voldemort speaks of killing the one who left and merely "punishing" the coward, but if the former is Snape he wasn't killed, while the coward was. I never considered that it might be a deliberate piece of dramatic irony. (Though it would work better, imo, if she'd made it less ambiguous who was who.)
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