Snape & Harry

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183165

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gloria" <gloworm419 at ...> wrote:
>
> Gloria says:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering your opinons on something. At the end of DH when Harry, 
> Ron & Hermione go up to the headmasters office after The Big V is dead 
> and all the headmasters/headmistresses are giving them a standing 
> ovation and clapping, was Snape too? Was he apart of that circle? It 
> didn't say in the book and I wonder if they'll use it in the movie? I 
> think it would be really nice to see Snape standing & clapping for 
> Harry as well, giving each other a 'knowing look'. It would be fitting 
> IMO to actually let them have a moment of decency between them.
> Just wondering what you all thought.
>

Montavilla47:

Yes, that would have been nice and satisfying for this reader, at least.  
But, in the books, it didn't happen.  

Whether one should regard JKR's post-series pronouncements as being
part of the story is up to each reader.  But, for what it's worth, JKR was
asked about the lack of a portrait for Snape in the books.  I'm going to 
paragraphrase her answer, since I don't have the exact quote.

~"He didn't have a portrait in the office because he had abandonned his
post as Headmaster of Hogwarts.  I'd like to think that Harry would have
tried to get him a portrait in time."~