Redemption of Anakin and other redemption stories (moved from Main)

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Carol:
Well, no. That's not what JKR's version of the afterlife apparently involves.
What we see is Dumbledore with his injured hand cured and Lupin looking young
and healthy and Black healed of the poison of Azkaban. If we were to see Snape,
I'm pretty sure that his Dark Mark would be gone and he'd be "cured" of spite
and bitterness, looking younger as Lupin does because the burdens of his
existence have been lifted from him.
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Alla:

And my point is that we do not see Snape and thus we can imagine one way or another what his afterlife will be like and I think if JKR wanted to establish it for sure, she could have shown him as well, I am sure she would have found the way to be true to the story.

She could have for example show him meeting Harry briefly after his chat with Dumbledore ended or something like that.

She did not and thus she left me a room for imagining him getting what I think he deserved for abusing Harry (IMO), even if he saved his life on Dumbledore's directions and then send him to death on Dumbledore's directions as well.

JMO,

Alla