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Snape's death, now are we to believe he died from the venom or from bleeding to death (or perhaps the combination of the two?). I can't quite buy the venom angle, for one thing he's been handling toxins his entire life, for another Arthur was bitten multiple times and survived without too much difficulty, and even if a bezoar wouldn't have neutralized the venom (and as venom could be used as a poison and imbibed rather than being received in a bite, it should be able to), are we to believe he wouldn't have kept some sort of anti-venom on his person? Severus is a planner, nearly to an obsessive-compulsive degree, he's had to be in order to stay alive for so long. So he couldn't have foreseen that working for a guy with a great big venomous snake might make preparing for getting bitten by said snake rather prudent?

Now let's consider the bleeding out thing. If I'm not mistaken Ron nearly bled out after he was splinched earlier in the book. Hermione pulls out her bag of holding and uses some dittany to staunch the bleeding. Was she all out by the time they reached the Shack? Did she lose her head and forget about it, but still have the presence of mind to conjure a damn flask? Or did she think Severus was getting his just reward and so stood by and watched him die? I don't recall any mention of the fact that the dittany was all gone after the trio took care of their burns but it's a possibility. It's certainly the one I'd like to believe as the other two are not terribly flattering to the character.

It's not that I hated the scene entirely, it just doesn't feel quite logical to me somehow and I can't seem to shake that.

But, on an unrelated note, I was also thinking that what might be fun to read would be scenes from the book told from an entirely different character's perspective. If I felt inspired enough I'd take a whack at "The Silver Doe" from Severus' point of view but I am lazy and will hope someone else will take the plot bunny and run with it. But my question to you guys is, if you could re-write one scene or chapter from another perspective, whose would you choose and why?

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And Arthur seemed to have been bitten not only on the extremities but right in the face as well, and he was hit several times.

My argument is that if Severus had time to do the memory thing then Hermione would've had time to apply the dittany, thus stopping the bleeding. And if a bezoar would've canceled out the venom I just can't see Severus being foolish enough not to carry one around with him.