"The Great Snape Debate" and a few words on LOTR

[eggplant107]

"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> has anyone read "The Great Snape
> Debate"? 

It's funny you should mention this, I just this minute got home from
Borders where I spent a happy hour reading through it. I didn't buy it
because it will be obsolete in about 80 days. 

>From what I understand, it's a flip book--read one direction,
>it's about reasons to trust Snape. Turned over and read the
>other way, it's about reasons to suspect that he's evil.

Yes that's right. The evil Snape half makes a moderately compelling
case although their explanation of why an evil Snape saved Harry's
life in book 1 doesn't hold water, but other than that it's not bad.
The good Snape half of the book seems much to have much less critical
thinking, their explanation as to why he agreed to make that
Unbreakable Vow was pathetically weak.

Eggplant