Tragedy/Snape (was:Crouch Summary

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6145

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> 
wrote:

> Same thing with Snape and JKR  - she is pouring 100% of her 
> literary ability into Severus to create a complex and imperishable
> character. 

Actually, I am not sure how much of the complexity and 
imperishability comes from what JKR wrote and how much from us fans, 
in our speculation and fanfic, perhaps based rather more on what we 
already had in our minds and hearts than on what we read on her 
pages. Certainly, it is her literary skill that made him quite so 
poisonously nasty to the Gryffindor children to whom he speaks (when 
I try to write Snape, I CAN NOT write his lines nasty enough to be 
authentic), dropped all the red herrings in Book 1, and came up with 
the very dramatic idea of a turned Death Eater...