What happened to Snape's body after the war was won?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191309


> > Pippin:
> > The Shrieking Shack was opened by Voldemort and so no longer sealed off. I presume there were DE's whose job it was to tidy up after their master, so Snape's body was probably transformed into something else and disposed of. I think, much as I would like to believe otherwise, that he*is*  dead -- unless of course, like Sherlock Holmes, his author has to resurrect him out of desperation.  May she be spared such a fate!

> Shelley:
> I'm not sure sure either of these first statements are correct. I will 
> take them one at a time:
> 
> The Shrieking Shack was never "sealed off"- rather, it was protected by 
> a rumor that it was haunted or a bad place to be, and had an entrance 
> tunnel on the Hogwarts grounds that was guarded by the Womping Willow. 

Pippin:
Quoting  Ron:"No one can get in. Fred and George tried, obviously, but all the entrances are sealed shut." -POA ch 14

The Shrieking Shack was meant as a prison for a werewolf -- there would need to be more than minor spells to keep the werewolf in the building and everyone else outside. But Voldemort, Lucius and Snape obviously didn't enter via the tunnel. Voldemort certainly didn't leave by it-- he'd have run smack into the Trio. 

Harry's initial vision of Voldemort in the Shrieking Shack shows him that one of the windows has been unboarded.

Shelley:
> The second part, of Snape's body: I don't think we have any evidence 
> that any DE cared what happened to people after they were dead, and 
> certainly not their own, unless that body and or body part was useful as 
> a spell component. 

Pippin:
Harry speculates that they were unable to find Mad-eye's body because the Death Eaters had hidden it, just as Crouch Jr. hid the body of his father by turning it into a bone and burying it in Hagrid's garden. I suppose it was their custom to dispose of the bodies unless their master told them not to. And Voldemort, as you say, had other things to think about. 

There was, come to think of it, one DE who knew that Snape had gone to the Shrieking Shack -- Lucius Malfoy.  I think he would want to know what had become of Snape, since Snape was, AFAIK, still bound by  his oath to protect Draco to the best of his ability. 

I think the Malfoys might have claimed the body --  they must know, whatever they think of Snape's divided loyalties, that they wouldn't still have a son if it weren't for him. Perhaps Snape now lies as an honored retainer in the Malfoy crypt? 

Pippin