Amanda Predicts Snape's future, was Snape history/future

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 80881

Hecate92:

>   I am also new to this group and have spent some very enjoyable
> evenings reading past messages.
>   I have been fascinated by the Snape/Lily theories as reasons for
> his defection from LV. However, what is the general thought on
> Snapes' future? Will he end up dead by book seven(I do hope not)
> having sacrificed himself to protect Harry, or will he actually have
> something positive happen to him (current or yet to be met character
> revealing some sort of care/kindness/love for him?
>   I would like to think of him doing other things rather than
> practising swishng his robes in the corridors and ordering vast
> amounts of immaculate underwear to be delivered by owl. Maybe he will
> expand his poetry writing.

Amanda's Predictions for Snape.

Alas. My own thought is that he will die. I'm betting there is an exchange
of understandings; he will probably go heroically in some blaze of
redemption, but I think he's toast. To paraphrase myself from some eons
ago--he has spent too long and invested too much of himself into looking
backward, to ever shake it off and stride on.

I think he is a father figure to Harry--one of the most reliable, in fact.
He is all the negative aspects--the one who doesn't understand, who sets
curfews, who isn't interested in explanations, who sets rules, who doesn't
seem to care. The aspect that you hate. The one you do not appreciate until
many years later--or when he is gone. And we don't have the luxury of "many
years later" in this series (or indications are strong that we don't), so I
think:

--he and Harry will come to understand each other (groundwork has already
been laid in that brilliant plot device of Occlumency, forcing an
understanding without having to lighten their relationship or make it less
tense);
--this understanding will not be driven by either of them *wanting* to
understand; it will be forced by circumstances, much as it already has been
[I am picturing some scene where Harry is facing Voldemort and Snape is
there as a DE; and Snape uses the connection they have established to shield
Harry, who is a truly lame Legilimens. Harry has to allow this, and Snape
cannot shield his own thoughts and protect Harry at the same time. Or
something like that.];
--very close to that moment of understanding, Snape will, in his particulary
nasty and cruel manner, without one shred of softening at all, do something
entirely in character that results in saving Harry, or saving something, and
also results in his death; in other words, he will remain Snape and operate
on Snape's own terms to the end;
--Harry will only then come to realize what Snape has been and why he has
done what he has, how he has.

Yeah, so I'm a hopeless romantic (in the archaic sense of the word--get your
minds out of the gutter!).

~Amanda, once-premier Snapologist



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