Hermeneutical Circles (was Re: Wondering)

[colebiancardi]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
 
> 
> I find myself wondering whether JKR has been having similar "issues". 
> The way she views her characters, because she created them and has so 
> many more ideas about them than what ended up in the canon, seems at 
> time to be in stark contrast to her readers' views of them. A prime
case 
> in point is JKR's expressions of puzzlement over the strength of many 
> readers' reactions to the Snape character. JKR thinks he's heroic; many 
> readers find him creepy and disgusting.  

colebiancardi:

actually, JKR thinks of Snape as an anti-hero, who is a nasty person.
 She doesn't view him as "Harry" heroic at all.  And many readers,
regardless of how they view Snape, find him fanstinating (per all the
posts on MAIN about Snape ;)

colebiancardi