Maledicte

The one thing I can't figure out, because I'm just too fucking _involved_ is if Snape will die in teh last book as some sort of redemption for his past sins, or if he'll be the dude who survives and never really understands any of how that could be.

Dude, yeah. I have some of the same reservations about Remus, not in terms of redemption but in terms of "Because everyone else in his life fucking has and sometimes living is too cruel" or if, just like you said, he'll be one of the survivors who stands in the wake of it, like some ocean in which he was certain of drowning receding.