Oh my Goodness!! Final HBP trailer.

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
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> "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
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> > the horrific impact of the scene in the
> > book, which was so shocking that it had
> > even me, a devoted Snape fan, doubting his loyalties 
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> That is interesting! The scene in the book was so powerful and seemed so clear cut that I thought it was game over; Snape is evil with no if's and's or but's about it. But then I've been a member of the I hate Snape club from long before book 6. It's interesting that even a die hard Snape fan had a moment of doubt after reading that part of the book. I think that's a tribute to JKR's ability.
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> If the movie makers do their job properly those who haven't read the books should come out of the movie absolutely convinced that Snape is as evil as Darth Vader. 
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>  Eggplant
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Carol responds:

And yet there has to be an element of ambiguity, as there was in the books, that those fans can come back to after they've seen "The Prince's Tale" scene from DH so that they can realize he was on the side of good all along. Otherwise, it will look as if his being on the good side comes out of nowhere, unforeshadowed. We did have that in, say, the film version of GoF, which echoes the book in showing DD vouching for Snape at Karkaroff's hearing (and also has Snape holding his wand to Barty Jr's throat, which, of course, isn't in the book since Barty is soul-sucked by a Dementor). We also had it in the PoA film, where he stands in front of the kids to protect them from the werewolf. It's less clear in OoP that he's really on DD's side, though he does teach attempt to teach Harry Occlumency and we do see James Potter being a "swine." It looks as if we'll have Snape removing the curse from the opal necklace in HBP, if nothing else, to show him working for DD. And, of course, the "Spinner's End" sequence should be as ambiguous in the film as it was in the book, leaving his motives open to debate by viewers who haven't read the books.

But I agree. Most of those viewers will see him as a villain, a traitor and murderer who was in league with Voldemort all along. And that's fine, as long as the hints are there--maybe DD saying "I trust Severus Snape completely" and "Severus, please"--so that the revelation of his true loyalties and motives in DH2 rings true. And, of course, a certain doe Patronus will help a lot.

Carol, who thinks that it would take a lot more than the murder of one old man to make Snape as evil as Darth Vader, Vader's last-minute repentance notwithstanding