Reaction to Snape's death

[Judy]

No: HPFGUIDX 175662

Alla wrote:
> I am happy imagining that in the afterlife Snape will be
> watching Lily in James' arms for eternity.

Wait a minute -- a few days ago, I said:
> I even saw one person (Alla, I
> think) saying how comforted she is to think of Snape being tormented
> forever in the afterlife by seeing Lily in James' arms.

And Alla replied:
> Close but not quite. I said that I was imagining that as carmic
> justice for Snape for what he did to Harry.

So, was I right in the first place about how you felt about this, 
Alla?

In my own view of the afterlife, Snape wouldn't be seeing Lily in 
James' arms. My personal view of the afterlife is that once our 
physical bodies are gone, the only thing we will have to connect 
ourselves to others is love. So, in the afterlife, we see those whom 
we love, but not our enemies. Unless Snape felt reconciled to James, 
he wouldn't see him at all.

A corollary of my view is that people who never felt love for anyone 
would be isolated in the afterlife. 


Alla again:
> I was quite content with
> future generations of Hogwarts students never seeing Snape teaching
> ever again.

Just a question -- is Snape's behavior as a teacher the main reason 
that you hate him?  (As opposed to, say, Snape's having been a Death 
Eater as your reason.) I'm trying to get a handle on the whole Snape-
hatred phenomenon.

-- JudySerenity, whose affection for Snape seems to grow the more 
that people here criticize him. (The poor guy!)