Why DD did not ask Snape to kill him. (extremely long)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 166319

> Carol, who thinks that if we had all the answers now, particularly
> about Snape, there would be no point in reading the final book of the
> series

SSSusan:
Gah!!!  Say it ain't so, Carol!  Do you really care so little about 
Harry's fate??  Or are you including that in "all the answers now"?  
Ah... perhaps you are, and I freaked out for nothing. :)  Still, 
that "particularly about Snape" makes me think you're not exactly too 
worried about the Trio, Neville, Ginny, Madam Sprout, McGonagall, etc.?

Perhaps you simply mean that if we knew the answer to that vital 
question about Snape [is he good or bad?], then that would take all 
the fun out of reading it for you?  

While I am horribly, horribly averse to receiving spoilers, for me the 
one I desperately don't want to know in advance is whether Harry lives 
or dies.  If *that* news spills in advance, I could feel a *little* of 
that "no point in reading" those final 784 pages she's giving us.  
Still, I know I'll be so curious about so many things that I 
definitely WOULD read it.  

What will become of Snape (of course!)?
Will the two-way mirrors return?
Was DD right about the # of and likely location of the horcruxes?
Does Sirius have any role to play?
Will Tonks & Lupin become a real pair?
Will we get that glimpse of the Godric's Hollow attack, and will it 
come from a memory of Harry's extracted for a pensieve?
Which Weasley(s) will die? (surely one, if not some)
Will scores of HP fans gag on their oatmeal if One Big Happy Weasley 
Family proves out?
Who *will* be the student who returns to Hogwarts as a professor?
Will we find out about the missing 24 hours?

And, most of all, for me, HOW in the world is Harry going to vanquish 
Lord Voldemort??  

I'm very serious about loathing spoilers, but no matter what slips out 
(or not), there's no way I'd not want to read the ending, because I'm 
just so, so, so dying to know how JKR's going to pull that off.  I've 
been banking on some "elegantly simple" solution, likely involving 
Harry's (hopefully unnecessary in the end) willingness to sacrifice 
himself out of love, and I just can't wait to see what she comes up 
with.

SSSusan, who realizes Carol might have been engaging in a little bit 
of hyperbole in that sig line, but who herself cannot imagine not 
reading Book Seven... no matter what.