[HPforGrownups] Re: Yet another Snape Theory

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2330

eggplant88 at hotmail.com wrote:

> >What's wrong with Snape being a SOB just because he's a SOB?
>
> Because he wouldn't be very interesting then.

Au contraire. "Bad guys," by which I mean "black" or "gray" characters,
usually with a capital-P Past, are almost always the most interesting and
developed characters. They're more complex and less predictable. I'm tired,
I'm not stating this very well, but even from the start of literature as we
know it, characters with complex moral shading and diverse motives are lots
more fun to read (and write) about, and quite a lot of the time they're
SOBs. Even in Milton, Satan and his motivation and reasoning are the most
interesting to analyze, and I doubt anyone would dispute *he* was an SOB....

--Amanda