What about Snape (Was: HP and the Half Blood Git)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 106118

<snip> Adan, with the realization just dawning that I don't know WHAT
I'd want for Snape. My favorite character and I just have no clue.  
> Weird. <snip>

Carol responds:
I'm assuming, first, that you want him to live rather than die
redeeming himself, which I think half the list anticipates as his
fate. Should he finally receive that Order of Merlin First Class for
helping to save Harry and the WW and retire to open his own potions
shop in Diagon Alley? Stay on as Potions professor and Head of
Slytherin, possibly promoted to assistant headmaster when McGonagall
becomes headmistress after Dumbledore dies? Finally receive the DADA
post now that there's no  longer a war or any chance of rejoining
Voldemort and he no longer has to favor the Slytherins or put up with
Harry? Marry Florence and have twins? (That last one's a joke, everyone!)

If, of course, he turns out to be evil, we won't have to worry about
his fate. He'd die unredeemed. But if he's a good guy, and if he
survives, can anyone think of any other options, or any reasons why
one of my suggestions is more likely than the others?

I personally think that he shouldn't have to put up with
"dunderheads," or they with him, and I think his services to
Dumbledore deserve more recognition than they'll ever receive, by
their very nature. I very much fear that both he and Percy will pull a
Boromir and die redeemed. But I'd rather that Percy saw the light and
Snape received the respect he craves and both of them lived.

Carol, fully aware that there's nothing canonical about this post but
hoping that others will have suggestions for Adan