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

[colebiancardi]

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> > SSSusan:
> > Just weighing in to say my eyes bugged out a bit when I read that 
> > response, too.  Does *anybody* here have a real inkling of what JKR 
> > was thinking of when she chose the words 'abandoned his post'?  If 
> > so, please pipe up!
 

>krista7 wrote:
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> He chose #4--to depart, and give the job of governing Hogwarts to 
> McG. Since the main reason he leaves is to continue his job
> of protecting Harry, he's really given up his post as Headmaster
> of Hogwarts to McG. So, he abandoned post--for good reasons, but
> he still left his job at Hogwarts.
> 
> I thought about how this fit with Dumbledore's example, since
> he too fled Hogwarts at one point (from Umbridge and the aurors),
> but he's reinstated after the Umbridge reign. Thus, when he dies,
> he's still serving officially, and he gets a portrait. Snape doesn't
> get the chance to be reinstated and to die in office, like AD, so 
> he doesn't automatically get a portrait.
> 
 
colebiancardi:

ahh, the nitpicker in me asks - did Dumbledore *abandon his post* when
he chose to have Snape kill him?  In a way, DD got to flee Hogwarts by
using Snape to kill him in the manner of the type of death & the time
that DD wanted.

So, in a way, DD also abandoned his post at Hogwarts because he defied
the normal course of fate and got Severus to kill him on command, as
DD wanted to go out peacefully and not violently.

I see no difference between the choice DD made at the end of HBP and
what Snape did in DH - they were both forced to leave Hogwarts.  I
don't think Snape *chose* to leave - he was forced to.  He was trying
to find Harry, as his conversation with McGonagall shows us.  I
believe that he wanted to give Harry the information at that point at
time.  But then he was attacked upon and he could not be killed - he
needed to give Harry the information.  And he obviously didn't want to
harm any of the staff or students, so he was forced to run.
 

colebiancardi