Killing Snape. Who will do it?

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 136172

I do think Snape will die in the next book.  

But Lucius can't kill Snape.  He's in prison.  And at any rate he's 
completely incapable.  Snape is utterly beyond him at this point. 

Bella won't kill him either.  Firstly, see above.  Secondly, part of 
his reason for taking the Unbreakable Vow was to secure her trust.  
Thirdly, it's not like Snape and Bellatrix are sharing a lover.  She 
might still resent Snape but she's not likely to kill him, unless 
Voldemort orders her to, that is. 

Snape's not going to kill himself. It's not in his nature.  

No member of the order will kill him either. Again, see above.  The 
scene at the end of the book where he "fights" Harry proves that 
Snape is without a doubt the most powerful wizard save Voldemort.  
  
What's left?  Well, Voldemort will kill him, and most likely in 
front of Harry, more towards the end of the book rather than at the 
beginning, after Harry and Snape have had yet another face-off.  
Harry and Snape must meet again, must talk again, and must, perhaps, 
fight again.

I see a scene maybe similar to that we found at the end of PoA, 
where Harry--who had thought along with the rest of the wizarding 
world that Sirius Black betrayed his parents--comes to realize he 
was as mistaken about Snape as he was about Black. Or at least that 
it's not that simple. 

Snape has just gotten too damned wonderful as a character for 
Rowling to abandon him to death at the beginning.  HBP was 
really "his" book, and the best chapter in it--I would say the best 
she has written--is Spinner's End.  The best scenes are all with 
Snape, or involving Snape in some way. 

She's not fooling me.  She's terribly attracted to him, really, as 
attracted as she is repelled.  Got a real love/hate relationship 
with him.  Whatever she does, however Snape turns out at the end, 
she won't do him a disservice as a character, and my guess is we'll 
see our fair share of him in Book 7.