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

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No: HPFGUIDX 173859

> 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.  

zgirnius:
Rowling was, in my view, giving an account of how the school saw it, as 
it is apparently the school's magic that (usually) causes the portrait 
to appear. In the wider war against Voldemort, Snape's job was to stay 
close to Voldemort at least until it was time to give Harry 
Dumbledore's message, and Snape chose (correctly!) to stay at *that* 
post, which meant leaving Hogwarts when he did.