Why is Snape important? Re: What exactly is the AK?

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 143856


I think that AK doesn't cause its victim to bear a particular 
expression. Your dead face simply reflects your last living 
attitude: LV probably revealed himself to his father and scared them 
all in a way or the other, and therefore they were terrified in the 
end. DD, IMO, 1) never feared death in the first place (see when he 
talks with LV at the end of book 5, "you always failed to understand 
that death does not mean a thing etc etc", quoting freely) 2) he was 
actually dying when they were on the tower (that drink in the cave 
didn't sound so harmless to me) and 3) was prepared to die because 
3.1) he thought that HP had all he needed to kill LV (horcruxes, 
understanding of LV's personality, knowledge about his own power) 
and because 3.2) he knew it was important for Snape to survive.

At this point the biggest question for me is, why is it so important 
that Snape should survive? Ok he's a spy, and so? I don't think 
that's all there was. And I don't believe JKR when she said DD kept 
him away from DADA because it could wake up his obscurity. The job 
was simply cursed, and DD needed Snape alive. Therefore, DD knew 
something big was going to happen in book 6, because he was prepared 
to lose his Potions/DADA professor in June.

So why why why? What will Snape do? And what's his Patronus, and his 
Boggart? JKR said it's important and we'd find out, but now we have 
to wait...grgrgrgrgrrrrrgrrr!


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, literature_Caro 
<literature_Caro at w...> wrote:
>
> I think this was discussed a lot around and it could be that the 
thing
> I am searching for has already appeared here:
> 
> In book four the dead Riddles are all described to have the 
expression
> of utmost terror on their faces. This was of course due to the AK.
> But what with DD, who was also AKed in book six. His expression was
> written as if he was asleep, except for the weird angle of his 
limbs.
> 
> Does this mean that the face of the killed ones expresses their
> attitude towards death? (DD said in book one that dying is like 
going
> to sleep after a very long day!) Or does he look like this because 
he
> agreed with his death (or even pleaded for it) to save Severus 
Snape?
> What did the Potters look like after their deaths?
> 
> I am interested in your thoughts because I cannot make up my mind
> about it and I think it all possible.
> 
> Yours
> Caro
>