DH reread CH 31

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No: HPFGUIDX 187489

> > Alla:
> > 
> > But wait, now I am confused. Me thinking about Snape as suicidal was not even an inference, but straight from canon (or so I thought), I will double check when I am home, but I was pretty sure that narrator describes Snape looking as suicidal that night after Lily's death. 
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> Pippin:
> I think it is an inference. Snape looked like "a man who had lived a hundred years of misery", peering "through a haze of pain". He wished out loud that he was dead. But he never said outright that he wants to kill himself.
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Alla:

Shakes head at herself. You (and Potioncat) are absolutely right. Talk about reading in the book what one wants to read. I mean, it is not that I even forgot that one, it is just in my head 'I wish I were dead" transformed into Snape being suicidal.

I still think that it is a valid reading, but I totally agree that it is an inference and not plain reading of canon.