Yet another Snape Theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 2346

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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....
> 
Which is what I was trying to say, except Amanda is much more 
articulate.

To reduce it to a simple phrase, "Moral ambiguity rules OK." <g>

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