What use is Snape in the rest of the plot?

[hogwartsmom]

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"Ciji" <cijimcb at y...> wrote:

> 
> I also agree with whomever said that there is no way Snape can survive
> book 7.  He's pledged alliegance to 2 sides-- Voldemort and
> Dumbledore, and breaking a promise always has consequnces.  And how do
> we know Snape didn't make some type of vow to Dumbledore, something
> along the lines of "in the event of your death, I , Severus Snape,
> promise to..."  No doubt Snape will play a MAJOR role in book 7. I
> hope Harry kills him... with pain.
> 

I wonder if Snape is a Horcrux, admitted it to DD (who would know how
to verify it), and THAT is why DD trusted Snape so much.  So, in HP7,
Harry faces LV after finding 3 of the 4 remaining HXs while Snape
lurks. Does Snape take an AK to the chest to save Harry, leaving Harry
to finish off LV? 

Of course, Bellatrix might be a safer HX since she does less original
thinking--follows blindly--than Snape.

HogwartsMom