Snape again/Love and Vengeance/Ending

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 146082

Sue wrote:
> 
> Ooh, Snape would HATE that! Think about how long and grudgingly he
carried this "life debt" to James because he'd saved him from wolf
Lupin, till he could repay it to Harry! 
> Now, imagine him having another debt and not being able to repay
it...  No doubt this will please those fans who hate Snape - the adult
ones, anyway - but would it be a satisfying conclusion to the series?
The major difference in the Narnia tale is that by the time Aslan 
> sacrifices himself, Edmund has long ago concluded he made a major
mistake, that the White Witch is crazy and has to be opposed. If Harry
sacrificed himself for Snape, Snape would never, ever forgive him,
IMO. :-)

Carol responds:
Very true, but it won't happen because, as you say, it wouldn't be a
satisfying conclusion to the series for anyone, even Snape haters,
because the final confrontation has to be between Voldemort and Harry,
not an anticlimactic battle between Snape and, say, diehard DEs in
which Harry interferes. Harry wouldn't sacrifice his life to save ESE!
or OFH!Snape from Aurors, right? So a much more likely outcome (sigh!)
is for Snape to sacrifice himself to save Harry. 

But since that scenario is all too predictable, how about this one,
which has actually been foreshadowed in HBP with Snape and Draco:
Snape finally pays off his life debt to James by saving Harry from the
curse he himself invented, Sectum Sempra? Can you imagine Snape
kneeling beside Harry *singing* that complicated countercurse? And
Harry would know exactly what it was and realize at last that he and
Snape really are on the same side?
He would challenge him: "Why did you do that? You murdered
Dumbledore!" but he would also give him a chance to have his say
because he would really want to know.

Carol, who does not find DDM!Snape at all unbelievable and does *not*
want Book 7 to be "Harry Potter and the Pursuit of Poetic Justice,"
aka "The Divine Karmedy"