The Snape debate

[carolynwhite2]

Ok, I've been absent a while, but just trying to catch up on one or 
two things, starting with our man Snape. I went back and looked at 
how our discussions went, and below is a summary of the main posts.

I quite like the idea of creating 'pro' and 'anti' buttons, to be 
clicked in addition to whatever main topic we are placing a post 
into. That way you would be able to pull up all the criticisms and 
all the appreciative purring in one place, though they would be very 
big categories probably.

So, what do we think of:

1.Severus Snape – general character studies
2.Young Snape & MWPP
3.Who is Snape working for?
4.Snape & love
5.Vampire/bat/animagus!Snape 
6. Snape + Harry 
7. Snape + teaching style
8. Snape as a literary construct/character

There were two other suggestions:

TBAYS - I'm not in favour of having a separate Snape TBay section, as 
they should already be coded to TBAY anyway, and as you know, I'm in 
favour of finding them within specific topics, as a different kind of 
commentary but nevertheless alongside normal posts.

Significant Scenes - I'm a bit concerned about this one in case it 
doubles up on our various other significant scene sections, eg the 
two Shrieking Shacks etc. However, do we think there are some 
specifically-Snape scenes which don't yet have sub-sections of their 
own, and which could become sub-categories?

Votes please on the sections, and I'll get them created, so those 
that want to dive into the Snape section using Debbie's dbase can do 
so.

Carolyn

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CW made the following category suggestions in:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Catalogue/message/2521

1.Severus Snape – general character studies
Not related to plot incidents; reviewing what we know of him as a 
person, including his childhood

2.Young Snape & MWPP
Discussions of Snape at school with James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter 
including analyses of Shrieking Shack 

3.Who is Snape working for?
Analyses of motives for Snape working for either Voldemort or 
Dumbledore or both, including possible changes of allegiance, and 
analyses of Shrieking Shack II and Graveyard rebirth

4.Snape & love 
All theories about who he may have loved ranging from Lily, through 
Mrs Norris, Florence, Bellatrix and Narcissa

5.Vampire/bat animagus!Snape 
Allegations that Snape is some kind of animagi or half-human creature

& asked whether we needed:

6. Snape + Harry 

7. Snape + teaching style

8. Snape as a literary construct/character (this might be for fan 
response/JKR's ambivalent response to same)

Talisman made the following suggestions:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Catalogue/message/2529


Pro/Anti
Character Analysis
Whose Man?
Young Snape
Snape and Love
Vampire/BatAnimagus
TBAYS
Significant Scenes

Jen responded:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Catalogue/message/2574

Anne responded:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Catalogue/message/2589

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Catalogue/message/2595

And Debbie created the database 'Snip, Snap, Snape'...