DDH!Snape (was Killing Snape (was Re: Snape and Dumbledore

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 165392

> Lupinlore:
> What would be the narrative purpose?[of Snape living] To close off 
Snape's story, I suppose. After all, what place would he have in a 
world where all the developments that define him, all the questions 
that frame his story, are resolved? He would be a being out of his 
time, a relic from a past now thankfully put to rest.

> Ceridwen:
>snip< 
> Do all of the developments that define Snape live in the past?  He 
>is still a powerful wizard; he has been shown to be handy with an 
> apparently complex healing spell; he is young enough, especially in 
> the WW, to move on and create another life for himself.  Simply 
> leaving would be as radical a change.  In my opinion, of course.


Talisman:
Having been relieved of all my *death of Snape* anxieties(: P) I'm 
fully back to betting that he will live. And Handsomely.

Certainly Snape points to the past.  His powerful motivations coil 
out from the dark heart of the still largely inscrutable back 
story.   

Of course it's true that all of the major plot lines, now coursing 
toward their denouement, spring, in some fashion, from that inky 
well.  But whereas most characters, even our eponymous Harry, seem to 
have been swept up into the passing storm, Snape rides at the very 
eye of it.

It's easy to see how one might expect Snape to dissipate with the 
dark clouds; to have no place in any sunny morning to come. 

But, tarry a moment.  This character: the lonely warrior, powerful 
and unfathomable, full of secrets and sorrows, willing to bear the 
scorn of the world he protects, has graced our pages in more than one 
form.

Indeed the similarities between Snape and Dumbledore are legion, 
though those who magnify the teenage Death Eater and discount the 
hardened Order leader may find it more difficult to see.

Any misstep a youthful Snape may have taken will be shown to be no 
worse than whatever it is that DD was confessing in the cave.

No living wizard rivals the powers of DD (or bests LV) except Snape. 
And, lest we forget, as Ceridwen reminded, Snape is quite young, even 
by Muggle standards.

Throughout the series Snape is thirty-something to DD's 150-
something.  Young, yet more than equal to the tasks of the Deathly 
Hallows--his epilogue potential is beyond reckoning.

Not only is there no other candidate to fill DD's role in the WW, but 
those who understand what actually transpired on the ramparts know 
Snape has already assumed the mantle.

Snape is DD's heir.  So I proffer DD'sHeir!Snape (DDH!Snape) as an 
important and necessary survivor of the final chapter. 

If not biologically related, Snape is nevertheless the son of DD's 
bosom and the only person to whom DD could entrust the well-being of 
his precious magical world.

Harry will grab Ginny by the hand and run laughing into the sun-
drenched meadows.  

Then, as the camera slowly pulls away, we will see Snape, high in the 
shadows of his lonely tower, watching the horizon, moving the chess 
pieces.

Talisman, raising her goblet to DDH!Snape: 

The King is dead, long live the King. 

P.S.

Snape isn't in need of forgiveness, but perhaps, in the course of DH, 
a few more readers will be redeemed.