Did Snape really abandon his post? Was: No progress for Slytherin?

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 173784

 
> Montavilla47:
> In the Bloomsbury Chat (which I haven't read but I've seen bits of), JKR
> was asked if the absence of Snape's portrait in the Headmaster's office 
> was deliberate.  Her reply was that it was, because Snape had 
> abandonned his post and therefore did not merit inclusion.
> 
> She added that she hoped Harry would have seen to it that Snape was
> later included.

colebiancardi:

I do wonder about that quote.  It wasn't that Snape "abandoned" his
post - he was run off.  If he had stayed, he would have been killed or
he would have killed.  Not exactly a *win-win* situation.  Not to
*question* JKR's answer, but that reply doesn't connect with The
Sacking of Severus Snape chapter.  What was he supposed to do?  I do
not agree that he abandoned his post.  

but that is just *my take* on it.