What's in the Box?

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 176961

Potioncat wrote:
> Imagine for a moment that you answer your door bell to find JKR 
waiting for you. She has a huge rather battered box in her arms which
she drops just inside the door. <snip>
> 
> You open the box to discover page after page of neatly written notes
and entire sections of typed manuscript. You quickly realize that 
what you have is a collection of written, but rejected moments from 
DH. (And, OK, maybe from the other 6 books too.) <snip>

> What event that must have happened off page, whether or not it was
described, is one you'd like to read? So? What would you be looking for?
<snip>

Carol responds:

You want us to choose *one* scene? Not the whole history of Severus
Snape (or whoever our favorite character may be)?

Okay, assuming that she knows "what really happened," as Tolkien would
say, and assuming that it would be in the box (which it wouldn't), I'd
really, really like to know what Snape saw when he got to King's
Cross, or whatever equivalent destination he arrived at the moment he
died, when he had the choice to come back as a ghost and (evidently)
chose to "go on." Did Lily meet him there? And what happened
afterwards? But, of course, JKR probably doesn't know, either.

Failing that, I'd settle for anything that filled the gaps in Snape's
history, for example, the details on those three childhood memories in
OoP or the other two memories in the Pensieve if we didn't see them in
"The Prince's Tale."

One thing that I'm sure would be in the box isn't directly related to
Snape but I'd love to read it anyway: the rejected chapter in which
Draco talks to Theo Nott at Malfoy Manor. I hope she publishes her
notes on him. I think it's a shame we saw so little of him in HBP and
none at all in DH.

Carol, who always has trouble choosing just one thing and hopes that
Potioncat doesn't mind her fudging a little on the question