Death for Snape? ( was Re: FF: Snape, Harry, Dumbledore, and flaws in the books)

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 106501

Dzeytoun sez:

> I rather suspect Snape will die before the end.  I think we will 
> discover why Dumbledore trusts him, but I don't know that it will 
> be something that will endear him to Harry or most readers.  In 
> the end I suspect Severus will be one of those people shuffled off 
> with a nice headstone that nobody ever reads because nobody cares 
> enough to visit the grave - except Dumbledore and maybe Harry now 
> and then if Snape does something REALLY spectacular.


The great thing about the WW is that you can live on in several ways 
after you die. Assuming Snape does die, I wouldn't want to see him
as a ghost (I'm also assuming he'd die redeeming himself and wouldn't
have anything left unsettled in the real-WW-world). But wouldn't it be
great if he has/had a portrait done? A Snape portrait, spouting sarcastic
remarks, making snide observations...I'd want one! 

Maybe book Seven will end with Harry in his Auror's office, with portraits
of those who influenced him (like Dumbledore) on his walls. Of course,
this would mean that Harry and Snape will have reconciled most of their 
differences, achieving a grudging tolerance of, and respect for, each 
other before Snape's heroic death. And Harry keeps Snape on his wall,
the one person always ready to call him on his impetuousness and 
temper--whether justified or not--as a way to keep his ego in check.
I can see the adult-Auror Harry earning the same respect from
Portrait!Snape that Dumbledore currently has from Snape, depending
on how things play out in books 6&7. And, being the living person,
Harry would always have the upper hand with Portrait!Snape ;-)

Just a thought,

Julie
(who'd find it very entertaining to have talking portraits in her office!)