Of Sorting and Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 176553


lizzyben
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Snape dies, and is left in the shack as worthless. How we never see 
> any sign that Snape gets an afterlife (unlike the Elect). How Snape 
> is never given forgiveness or absolution before his death. He is, 
> still, judged by the Author as unworthy.
> 
> > Basically, I've just been trying to figure out if Snape gets to 
go 
> to heaven. And based on the cosmology of the Potterverse, it seems 
> like the answer is no. That breaks my heart, for real.
> 

I don't think JKR intended to give us that message, as the main 
message of the books is that it is the choices we make that define us 
rather than who we are. But by faiing to give a 'closure' for Snape I 
think she perhaps unintentionally (I hope)  has given it.

I too have been struggling with a 'broken heart' over Severus Snape. 
As a young man he made 'bad' choices 
a)joining the death eaters
b)telling Voldenort about the prophecy.

But there was clearly repentance for those. He went to Dumbledore at 
first in clear expectation that his reward might have been to be 
killed by him. ..'Don't kill me'.. It may have been a flawed 
repentance to begin with but he persisted with it after Lily's death, 
when with all hope gone he could have settled for suicide and a quick 
end to his pain. But he did not, he accepted the requirement of 
restitution for his crimes with a lifetime of service to Dumbledore 
and of all the characters seems to have paid the highest price for 
his 'salvation'. His hell was served on earth in the years of fear 
and isolation as he carried out his role as 'double agent'. Bear in 
mind too that he was only 21 when Lily and James were killed.  His 
isolation which was made almost total when he was force to kill 
Dumbledore in service of the ultimate defeat of Voldemort. For by 
that act he cut himself off from the 'good' side and spent the final 
year of his life in the 'dark'. His life for that last year must have 
been a bleak one of living in fear of both sides but still trying to 
complete his mission, help Harry to complete his and protect the 
students from the worst of the Death Eaters.

There is a wonderful poem called 'Duet for One' which sums up what 
his state of mind must have been. You can find it at 
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3513345/1/Duet_for_One

It made me cry but in the words of another Wizard

'I will not say 'Do not weep' for not all tears are evil'.

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