Snape's birthday (Was: Root Canal/JK Decorations/Jonathan Strange and...)

[justcarol67]

Kemper wrote:
> I agree about Snape not celebrating his birthday and attempting to 
> keep it on the down/low, but I don't see DD allowing Snape to sulk 
> on his birthday.
> But, Carol, what did you mean "with Voldemort gone [Snape is
probably] happier now"?
 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Yes, I want to know about that too. Do confess Carol, do you know 
> something that we ALL would love to know? :o)
> 
> Gone... When? How? Tell us the whole story, please. :o)


Carol responds extremely belatedly:
Just found this ancient post looking for something else entirely, and
I wondered myself what I meant. And then I realized that I meant
*now*, in 2006, Voldemort is long gone (as of 1996(?), when Harry
presumably defeated him), so Snape, assuming that he's alive and
somewhere other than Azkaban, is probably happier now. (IOW, I was
thinking of him in the present rather than immediately post-HBP. In
fact, I was thinking of all the characters who are wished a happy
birthday on JKR's site as being alive in the present, which doesn't
bode well for Luna.)

Yes, yes, Snape is a fictional character and all that, but I'd love
for him to find redemption and something akin to happiness at last.

Carol, who was actually looking for a post on typos in HBP and is
forced to conclude reluctantly that it doesn't exist