DH rant

[Mari]

No: HPFGUIDX 172636


Neri writes:
 
 
> Snape and Harry don't interact in DH at all, not before Harry
> discovers the truth and not after. That meeting between them that
> we've all been waiting for, it never happens. 

Mari:

In fact, they do meet and interact, although briefly, when Snape 
gives Harry his memories, just before he dies. Had they had an 
extended confrontation, I doubt Harry would have listened to, or 
believed anything Snape might have tried to say. I think Snape knows 
this, which is why he stayed in the background, not letting Harry 
know he was protecting him. To me what happened is more believable. 
No hysterical pleas for forgiveness, no ranting speeches; just a 
moment of acknowledgement from both Snape and Harry that neither has 
been able to see the other for who they are because Harry has never 
known the TRUTH and neither has Snape, it turns out, for most of the 
time he was protecting Harry.


Neri again:

> In short, Snape's character arc ends with nothing. He doesn't even
> die fighting like Sirius. He isn't killed because he was DDM or
> something. Heck, Voldemort never even learns before he dies that 
> Snape wasn't his man after all. 

Mari again:

I really can't let this one go by. Harry, when he duels with 
Voldemort for the second time, PUBLICLY CLEARS SNAPE for all to hear, 
taunting Voldemort with the fact that Snape was never his man, and 
that Voldemort's plan to become master of the Elder Wand by killing 
Snape has not succeeded because Snape and Dumbledore planned 
Dumbledore's death between them. It's right there in the text! 
Voldemort DOES know before he dies that Snape wasn't his man.