Snape's death scene

[julie]

No: HPFGUIDX 174341


> 
> Jack-A-Roe:
> I guess we just see the scene differently. It's not that he could 
not
> fight and escape it's that he did not fight and try to escape. And 
he
> would have failed in his mission, and I'm sure that was going 
through
> his head, until Harry arrived.
>

Julie:
Is it possible that Snape somehow knew Harry was there,
at least somewhere toward the end? After Voldemort strode
away with Nagini, Harry *immediately* starts toward Snape
though Hermione quickly tries to stop him...

"He did not know why he was doing it, why he was approaching
they dying man. He did not what he felt as he saw Snape's
white face..."

So *why* does Harry go right to Snape, feeling compelled tp
do so, take off his cloak and bend down close so Snape can
conveniently reach him to clutch his robes and bring Harry
close enough to speak? Or, rather, why doesn't Harry just 
hightail it out of there, figuring the murdering bastard
he so despises got exactly what he deserved? 

Is Harry just so morbidly fascinated he can't help himself?
Is there some unconscious part of him that realizes there are
flaws in Snape's oh-so-evil appearance (from his inconsistent
behavior when he killed Dumbledore, to his "punishing" the
DA members by sending them into the Forbidden Forest)? Or,
is Snape somehow aware of Harry's presence, and in some
manner is legilimizing Harry, silently communicating his 
desperation to see Harry before he dies? Or...(last one!)
did Snape's repeated pleas to Voldemort to let him go to
Harry penetrate Harry's mind subconsciously, and indicate
to him that there was more to Snape's pleas than wanting
to hand Harry over to Voldemort (after all Snape could 
have done that dozens of times over in the preceding years)?

I suspect it's a mix of several things. (Really the whole
"Let me go to Harry Potter/the boy" desperate pleading part
was unnerving me as a reader, as desperation is *so* unlike
Snape, so what was Harry feeling?) But definitely something
out of the ordinary compelled Harry to ignore any risk that
Voldemort might turn around and come back, and to approach
a man he should have been delighted to see getting his 
(apparent) just desserts.

Julie