"Bad Snapers," Karma, and the End of Snape (was Re: Of Sorting and Snape)

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> Hickengruendler:
> 
> I'm not sure. I found some of the "good guys" deaths pretty ironic as 
> well, most notably Sirius'. He was killed by a family member on 
> Ministry of Magic grounds, after all. By a member of the same family 
> he seeked to escape and at the very place, where the people lived, 
> who had put a death penalty on his head a few years ago. Similarly, 
> Dobby being mortally wounded in Malfoy Manor of all places is darkly 
> ironic, even though he lived long enough to die outside Shall 
> Cottage. I also found it ironic, that Fred Weasley died, when 
> something blew up, given that blowing up things was about his 
> favourite hobby. I do have to admit, though, that I don't know how 
> much of it is intended by JKR and how much is simply my reading of 
> it. The only two deaths, where I'm absolutely sure, the irony is 
> there on purpose, are Sirius and Snape's.
>


Alla:

Oh yes, definitely - agreed about deaths of good guys being ironic as 
well, some of them.

I am wondering about Dobby now actually. Do you think his death in 
Malfoy manor symbolises that house elves cannot leave the clutches of 
the owners yet after all?

That is why I do think that JKR made Snape life and death ambigious 
till the very end in essense that we can still come up with so many 
different interpretations.

I would not be sure if she intended villain or hero death for him. 
maybe both?

JMO,

Alla