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I was doing some research for my story "The Wrath of the Half-Blood Prince" and someone theorized that Snape knew lots of Dark Magic prior to coming to school b/c his witch mother wanted him to be able to defend himself against the Moors Murderers, who were active in northern England at the time.

Here're the Moors Murders:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_Murderers

The British government had abolished the death penalty five months earlier and I'd read there was a lot of public anger that these people could not be executed.

What if the public had pressured the government to revive the death penalty, in general or just for the murderers in question? I believe passing a law to deal with specific people is called a Bill of Attainder and although that is illegal in the United States, it might be doable in Britain.
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