Snape's future (Was: Snape's other books)

[potioncat]

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> 
> Carol responds:
> I've been wondering the same thing. I'm sure the Aurors will search
> his office (and Spinner's End, if they can find it) quite 
thoroughly.

Potioncat:
Well, I was going to write a very good post about whether Spinner's 
End is Snape's or LV's. I was going to suggest the Riddles made their 
money from the mills and this is  property that ....never mind. 
Another read through of "Spinner's End" changed my mind.

Let's assume, since most of us do anyway, that Spinner's End is the 
same house where teenaged Severus killed flies. It could be the 
Muggle home of his Muggle father, or it could have belonged to his 
mother, in the midst of Muggles but hidden from them. At any rate, 
it's now a wizard home in the midst of an abandoned neighborhood.

But even more interesting, Snape was said to belong to a gang that 
included Bella, yet she's surprised that he lives here. Narcissa, on 
the other hand, knows just where it is. She hurries there with no 
apparant problem. Has she been here before? Hmm, was there a dish of 
ACID POPS on the side table?

There doesn't appear to be any charms on the house that would make it 
hard to find. So either Snape and Pettigrew had better pack up quick, 
or Snape had better begin the incantations! (That would, of course, 
make him "Prince, charming".)

AD in next weeks Prophet: For sale,a charming brick townhouse in an 
historic neighborhood ripe for gentrification. Home values here can 
only go up! The centerpiece of the cozy sitting room are lovely built-
in bookcases....

As for the aurors and their search. Well, that would make sense, 
wouldn't it? I wonder if anyone searched Moody's quarters after Barty 
was discovered? JKR didn't tell us about it. My guess is that we 
won't see any of the Dumbledore Murder Investigation either. Unless 
Arthur is either part of it or hears about it and tells us, erm, I 
mean, tells Harry about it.

Carol:> 
> But I've also been thinking of what Snape is going to do now. > 
(and I'll bet they will since Draco is an accessory to murder as well
> as being guilty of attempted murder and various other crimes), she
> could give away Snape's hiding place.

Potioncat: Unless of course, Spinner's End is charmed in some way and 
Draco has to hide there too. 

> Carol:
> What happens next? Is he still bound by the vow to protect Draco, 
even
> though Draco is now a "man," having turned seventeen on June 5?

Potioncat:
I read the UV as being completed with the death of DD, but if not, 
I'd think Draco's coming of age would finish it. Since coming of age 
completes the blood protection with Harry's family.

Carol:
Will he find a way to
> communicate with the Order if he can still conjure a Patronus? Sure,
> he's clever and he can probably elude the Aurors by Apparating, but 
he
> has to live somewhere.

Potioncat:
Well, there are some nice caves not too far from Hogsmeade. He can 
hang from the ceiling there..erm I mean...hang out there. Of course, 
the first time he saw words carved in the cave wall "Padfoot was 
here" he'd go ballistic.


Carol: 
> I think JKR plans to give Snape an important role (one crucial 
scene,
> at least) in Book 7, but how can she keep him safe and alive till 
then?

Potioncat:
Bella has been safe, as has Peter. By the way, has anyone suggested 
that Peter might be DDM!Peter? So I'm sure JKR can keep Snape 
unharmed by friend or foe until she needs him.

Carol:
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas (at least remotely supportable by canon 
so
> we won't be sent to OTChatter by the Elvses) as to what Snape is
> likely to do next (assuming that he's not immediately killed or sent
> to Azkaban, in which case his fate is a nonissue)?  Will he stay at
> Spinner's End with Peter (surely a risky proposition), move in with
> Voldy, share a cozy hideaway with Bellatrix in that secret room 
under
> the drawing room in the Malfoy manor, fly to Egypt on Buckbeak? 
(Just
> joking on that last one.)


Potioncat:
As you said, there are all sorts of possibilities. I think we're 
going to hear of Snape doing horrible things. At the very least, 
we'll hear of DEs doing horrible things and Harry will have good 
reason to suspect Snape was part of it. You bring up a good point, 
Snape could end up in Azkaban. If so, I'm sure we'll get the scene 
where he's tossed into his cell and the first thing he sees is 
writing on the wall "Padfoot was here". There's no dementors there 
now. I wonder how much contact the inmates have? Hiding at Malfoy 
Manor might work as well. I don't think the MoM has found all the 
secrets in the that house. (I don't want want to picture him with 
Bella though.) 

I really expect we'll either see almost nothing of Snape, or we'll 
see an absolutely horrible Snape until the end. At the end we'll get 
some big scene which will prove at last which side he has been on.

Potioncat, who will add that the resolution will be clear that he is 
DDM!Snape or else the ending will prove to some of us that he 
maintained his cover to the very end.