Yes, it would have been a good idea to have Charity Burbage appear previously, even if only in passing, once or twice per book. Why not mention her sitting at the Head Table with the other teachers? Or some mention by Hermione in third year, who was taking Muggle Studies?
But the scene would have been far more wrenching had we known of a relationship between them-
It seems like an awful lot of people have inferred some kind of a relationship between them, just from the little bit we see. And I started writing Severus/Charity as a pairing for Snape100 when the prompt was based on the "Eye of the Beholder" fic with characters that rarely get paired in fanfiction, so of course I've thought about it a bit myself. ;-) But even when I first read the scene in DH, I got the impression of at least simple, cordial, collegial friendship between the two, and great trust, a trust that was being betrayed.
And saying that Severus had sheer grit is probably the understatement of the century. He had weaknesses and vulnerabilities, but by God, at the core he was a strong man.
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But the scene would have been far more wrenching had we known of a relationship between them-
It seems like an awful lot of people have inferred some kind of a relationship between them, just from the little bit we see. And I started writing Severus/Charity as a pairing for Snape100 when the prompt was based on the "Eye of the Beholder" fic with characters that rarely get paired in fanfiction, so of course I've thought about it a bit myself. ;-) But even when I first read the scene in DH, I got the impression of at least simple, cordial, collegial friendship between the two, and great trust, a trust that was being betrayed.
And saying that Severus had sheer grit is probably the understatement of the century. He had weaknesses and vulnerabilities, but by God, at the core he was a strong man.