The Last Train

[jezebel_faust]

Yeah, so. Who'da thunk I'd finally get around to posting something about HP? At some point I may be able to post coherently and sans bitterness about HP&DH. Until then, there's this.

Spoilers, of course.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” Dumbledore’s blue eyes twinkled even

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[firefly124]

That brought tears to my eyes. Well done.

[jezebel_faust]

Thank you. (If that doesn't sound too weird for making you cry.)

[jezebel_faust]

Thanks!

(Is your icon of Neil Gaiman's Death? Because I am totally looking for Death/Snape stories. There must be some...)

[bluestocking79]

That's beautiful!

If only canon had offered us this kind of closure...

[jezebel_faust]

Thank you!

Warning: Mini rant ensues.

That is why Snape's death is so horribly unsatisfying to me--because it lacks that one moment of reconciliation between Harry and Snape. Harry's words to little ASP in the epilogue made me tear up, but they feel so unearned because we never SAW Harry come to terms with and accept all that Snape did for him. I would have been satisfied with a tiny exchange between Harry and Snape's portrait (two words: "Thank you"), but of course Snape doesn't even DESERVE a portrait because he "deserted" his post. Thank you, JKR--you succeeded in making me angry at a building.

[bluestocking79]

Rant away!

I agree completely, of course. The resolution to the Harry/Snape relationship was completely cheap and inauthentic. And if Hogwarts thought that Snape was a deserter, why didn't it make the same judgment of Dumbledore, who plotted to force another man to kill him before the end of a school year? That's not intentional desertion?

I was also very upset that Snape was chased from the school that way, having to hear his former teachers and colleagues heap abuse on him, even while he'd been risking his life and sanity to keep them safe. It would have been nice if we'd gotten one tiny, "I misjudged him" from somebody!

[mary_j_59]

Just chiming in to say that I agree completely. Rowling is just being incredibly meanspirited about this - and, in addition, whole "Sacking of Snape" chapter had me incredulous even while I was reading it. So much in it seemed unnecessary, starting with Harry's random use of "Crucio". I really must start working on my final Snape essay! So much about this book bothers me.

But I again want to thank Jezebel Faust for writing this lovely scene.

[mary_j_59]

Thank you! That's lovely.

[jezebel_faust]

Thank you so much!

[snapes_witch]

How touching! Would it really have been so bad for Jo to do something like this?

[jezebel_faust]

That is what KILLS me. It took me 300 words. I have seen people do heartbreaking drabbles. She has more than 700 pages; she couldn't spare a few words to give Snape a moment of grace?