Another Snape thread/ Snape as hero

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 151964

Carol wrote:
>  
> Ideas, anyone? What do you think Snape will be up to, mostly off page,
> in Book 7? Surely all those revelations about him in HBP don't lead to
> a dead end on the tower.
>  
> Carol, knowing that it's silly to worry about a fictional character
> whose fate and redemption are outside her control but concerned for
> Snape's soul nonetheless


Potioncat:
Well, the only thing I'm sure of is that JKR has a big surprise up her 
sleeve.

It certainly doesn't seem that the Order members we saw expected 
anything like the Tower to happen. If anyone else did (Moody? 
Aberforth?) we'll have to wait to find out.

I suspect that Snape will be off page most of HBP, with some sort of 
big scene with Harry at the end. OR, that we'll see him something like 
we did in Spinner's End. OR we'll hear he's doing things via the Daily 
Prophet. 

I think Harry will be getting information from Snape without knowing 
who the information is coming from. Think Polyjuice and "If I didn't 
know how to act..."

In another thread Snape is offered up as a hero type. I know Harry as 
hero of a genre (with the genre being in dispute) has come up. But has 
anyone ever considered that we might end up with several literary types 
of heroes? 

Is the series big enough for that?