Suicidal!Snape and the Curse of DADA-- LONG!!

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 141906


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> Lupinlore:
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> The problem with this, as with so many other such scenarios, is that 
> it effectively makes Snape the hero of the story.  


Not really --- any more than Albus coming to the rescue at the end of
OoP makes HIM the hero of the story.  In any case, Snape's motivations
are still off-screen here, so the focus is still on Harry.  Obviously
if the tower scene had been written from Snape's POV that would be
massively focus-pulling, but the way it's written the real payoff from
that sequence would be where HARRY finds out what happened, and on
what he decides to do about it.

Whatever you think about Snape, his and Harry's is the books' central
relationship-- it has been the most emotionally intense, the most
consequential to events, and the one that's left in suspense going
into the final act.  Of course the nature of the relationship could be
merely a straightforward protagonist/antagonist one, but I'd find that
very surprising.  

--Sydney