Snape & Harry

[pippin_999]

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> Montavilla47:
> 
> Yes, that would have been nice and satisfying for this reader, at
least.  But, in the books, it didn't happen.  

Pippin:
It would have created a monster plot-hole if it had. Portrait!Snape
would have been somewhere about the castle during the interval between
his death and Harry's victory, and there'd have to be some explanation
of what he'd been doing, which could only be anticlimactic. 

 "He might have just left the room" is perfect, IMO -- poignantly
suggesting Harry's dawning regret that Snape is gone. To have
Portrait!Snape pop up after that would  be a real mood buster.

Here's the quote by the way:
http://www.half-bloodprince.org/snape_jkr.php

Laura Trego: Was the absence of Snape's portrait in the headmasters
office in the last scene innocent or deliberate?

J.K. Rowling: It was deliberate. Snape had effectively abandoned his
post before dying, so he had not merited inclusion in these august
circles. However, I like to think that Harry would be instrumental in
ensuring that Snape's portrait would appear there in due course.

Pippin