Where Are They Now? Character Game

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No: HPFGUIDX 187325

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

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> Here's the game. Basing your theory on canon tell us what you think certain characters are doing now. Just for fun, you may add an "if the character had survived" clause. You may choose to use or ignore any information from JKR interviews. You may flesh out the details we learned in the epilogue or go for characters we didn't learn about.

Karen responds:

If he had survived I really don't think Snape would have wanted to be Headmaster at Hogwarts for the following reasons:

I don't see teaching as his 'chosen' career it was forced on him by both his 'masters' so was a function of his cover personality, not I feel his true one. I really can't see him wanting to continue to teach 'Dunderheads', although I can imagine he would have been happy to teach  at NEWT level. However can you imagine any other teacher being prepared to teach potions 'under' Snape, especially when they would probably have been his pupil in the past.

He was fairly solitary, although that was a result of his teenage experience and life as a spy but I think that would have continued, albeit with a few close friends amongst those he considered his intellectual equals. Wouldn't he have wanted a life where he could pursue his own interests without having to 'be' what he he was not? So a role as headmaster having to keep the ministry, governors, parents and staff happy would I feel have seemed to him not much different to 'managing' Voldemort and Dumbledore.

Karen