Now that I've broken my self-imposed LJ sabattical and have just finished the book less than two hours ago with a strange mix of deep satisfaction and sadness, I read your thoughts and just had to comment on this passage in particular:
His death was not a shock and I didn't cry, not one bit. But as the night wore on, it was as if my grief over him was beginning, and today I am filled with sadness over a man who didn't want to die. For all the bad he had done and all the people he had hurt, he wanted to live. He served two masters and each betrayed him. He had no one to go to, no one to love. If he had let Harry into his life instead of keeping his feelings about Lily hidden…well that didn't happen so there is no use in dwelling on what could have been.
You read my mind there. Jo could not have made Severus' death more tragic and yet so fitting. The epilogue blew me away when I read that Harry had called his son "Albus Severus". What a fitting tribute to the series' biggest (unrecognized) hero! *sniffle* My heart is still heavy as I write this, but I have to second your final words…
I went to see OotP today and it was so sad seeing the scenes with Snape in them, and then when Arthur was attacked by Nigini, I was really upset. (So why did Arthur survive and Snape didn't? Snape died rather quickly and even though people saved Arthur, it is not as if they arrived immediately after he had been bitten -- it's not fair, I say!)
I haven't seen the movie yet but yeah, I wondered about the snake bite myself… and I've read other metas that suggest Snape would know better than to go into a meeting with Voldemort and a poisonous snake and NOT have protection (i.e. bezoar) of some kind - or that he actually DID and is still alive. HA!
But I still have this awful visual in my head of the fear on Severus' face just before the snake killed him - redeemed, of course, by the intense "Snarry-ness" of the part where Sev grabs Harry's robes and says "Look… at… me."
I choose to think he is alive and in hiding...Harry has helped him to remain safe :-) Hehe. I am writing a fic about it right now :-) I am not sure if it is going to be Snarry or not though.
My thoughts exactly! But I have read recent memes that suggest Sev is still alive (no body, no funeral, etc) and that there's no way that he would go into a meeting with Voldemort & Nagini without some sort of protection (i.e. bezoar). I can only dream…
I haven't seen the movie yet - Goblet was "teh suck" in my opinion and I'm a little wary of how much they've tinkered with the book again in this one. :/
Yes, I definitely think he would have been smart enough to have a bezoar or something else prepared to save himself. It seems as Jo really has killed him, but from what we have been told in the past, he has the means to have escaped this death, so I am going with that idea. And it is not as if she has shown us a body that has been buried in the ground. I haven't yet read any fics regarding how he survived, but I am guessing there are quite a few already. I am writing my own, as well :-)
I haven't yet read any fics regarding how he survived, but I am guessing there are quite a few already. I am writing my own, as well :-)
I look forward to it! I've read one already, it was good (can't remember where I found it, though).
I actually have a partly finished fic that would dovetail nicely with the ending of DH; I might just have to take it out of the mothballs, so to speak, and run it past my beta, rakina. That is if she's still speaking to me after my too-long LJ absence!
Now that I've broken my self-imposed LJ sabattical and have just finished the book less than two hours ago with a strange mix of deep satisfaction and sadness, I read your thoughts and just had to comment on this passage in particular:
His death was not a shock and I didn't cry, not one bit. But as the night wore on, it was as if my grief over him was beginning, and today I am filled with sadness over a man who didn't want to die. For all the bad he had done and all the people he had hurt, he wanted to live. He served two masters and each betrayed him. He had no one to go to, no one to love. If he had let Harry into his life instead of keeping his feelings about Lily hidden…well that didn't happen so there is no use in dwelling on what could have been.
You read my mind there. Jo could not have made Severus' death more tragic and yet so fitting. The epilogue blew me away when I read that Harry had called his son "Albus Severus". What a fitting tribute to the series' biggest (unrecognized) hero! *sniffle* My heart is still heavy as I write this, but I have to second your final words…
Thank you, Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling
WHAT A RIDE!!!!
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But I still have this awful visual in my head of the fear on Severus' face just before the snake killed him - redeemed, of course, by the intense "Snarry-ness" of the part where Sev grabs Harry's robes and says "Look… at… me."
GAH! *ded*
Guess I'll have to brave the movie now…
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My thoughts exactly! But I have read recent memes that suggest Sev is still alive (no body, no funeral, etc) and that there's no way that he would go into a meeting with Voldemort & Nagini without some sort of protection (i.e. bezoar). I can only dream…
I haven't seen the movie yet - Goblet was "teh suck" in my opinion and I'm a little wary of how much they've tinkered with the book again in this one. :/
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I look forward to it! I've read one already, it was good (can't remember where I found it, though).
I actually have a partly finished fic that would dovetail nicely with the ending of DH; I might just have to take it out of the mothballs, so to speak, and run it past my beta, rakina. That is if she's still speaking to me after my too-long LJ absence!
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Ah yes, you should definitely post it :-)
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