Severus lives!

[colebiancardi]

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> colebiancardi:
> 
> > ahh, but prior to Nagini's bite, Harry described 
> > Snape's eyes as blank:
> 
> > "And now Snape looked at Voldemort, and Snape's 
> > face was like a desth mask. It was marble white 
> > and so still that when he spoke, it was a shock 
> > to see that anyone lived behind the blank eyes." 
> > (p 655 US ed)
<snipping>
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Oh, good point!  Maybe it really was Snape I saw at 
> the supermarket last summer--in his jogging clothes.  
> And he looked happy.
>

colebiancardi:

heee!  

More quotes that depict Snape's eyes as cold or dead or empty:

DH US ed p597
"He had forgotten the details of Snape's appearance in the magnitude
of his crimes, forgotten how his greasy black hair hung in curtains
around his thin face, how his black eyes had a dead, cold look."

>From the very FIRST book:  SS US hardcover ed, p. 136
"His [Snape's] eyes were black like Hagrid's, but they had none of
Hagrid's warmth.  They were cold and empty and made you think of dark
tunnels."

OotP, US hardcover ed, p 744

"His cold, dark eyes were boring into Harry's, who met his glaze
unflinchingly..."



so, yes, we have scenes where Snape's eyes glitter and such, but we
also have canon that states his eyes have a dead, empty and cold look
when he is very much alive and kicking.  I wonder if this is a nasty
by-product of combining Legilimency and Occlumency for way too long.  

maybe you did see a happy, jogging Snape :)  

colebiancardi