In (many) years to come...?

[Elizabeth Snape]

No: HPFGUIDX 170692

 houyhnhnm:
> 
> I just came across that a couple of days ago while 
> looking up something else.  SS, Scholastic, p. 262:  
> In years to come Harry would never quite remember how 
> he had managed to get through his exams when he half 
> expected Voldemort to come bursting through the door 
> at any moment.
> 
> The "years to come" could mean only the next six, but 
> it is suggestive, isn't it, of someone looking back 
> over a great distance of time?
>

Snape's Witch:

True!!  Then there's the fact that we can't very well be reading a 
story with the POV of someone who's dead!  Oh dear -- unless Harry's 
a 'ghost' writer?  Sorry, just had to say that! ;-)