Severus lives!

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No: HPFGUIDX 174543

Jazmyn Concolor:

> I noticed several things that make me believe that Snape 
> somehow didn't really die.

houyhnhnm:

Snape's eyes have always been so important--they glitter; 
they gleam; they pierce--that when something in their 
depths seems to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank and 
empty, I think it is a fairly sure sign that he has died.  
Add to that the fact that he was much more severely injured 
than Arthur Weasley by Nagini, beyond the help of his own 
magic or the aid of any healer and I am hesitant to agree 
that Snape escaped death in a very literal or concrete sense.

But.  There is a long tradition of the hero (and Rowling 
has acknowledged Snape a hero) with the unknown grave, 
from Owain Glyndwr to A.C. Sandino to Raoul Wallenberg.  
I have a very strong feeling that with omission of any 
reference to Snape's body or grave, or hardly any more 
reference to Snape at all except in the child with Lily's 
eyes who bears his name, that we are given permission in 
a mystical sense, at least, to believe.  Severus Snape: 
Presente Presente Presente.