Snape, again...(was Re: Come on folks)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 173575

Julie:
> So I can buy that he is so desperate, looking at Nagini, and
> begging Voldemort to let him go get Harry Potter. (And, yes,
> it would have been smart to have already put the memories in
> a vial in case something happened to him, but Snape can take
> care of himself in almost any circumstance except against 
> Voldemort, and he had absolutely no reason to expect that
> Voldemort would turn on him before the battle was finished).

Jen: And if he'd put those memories in a vial or handed them over to 
Harry in strands what a *lost* moment that would have been.  Those 
memories gushing out as he died because finally in death, Snape could 
release everything he'd shielded using Occlumency, everything lost to 
him when he became bitter and resentful and determined he would never 
again show weakness, never 'wear his heart on his sleeve'. 

I can't do the image justice but found it to be another one of JKR's 
fine moments of writing, using imagery to convey what words could not.

Jen, trying to find the words anyway. <g>