Q: why readers love Snape (Was:Draco/ Snape parallels)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/01/02 17:45:46 GMT Standard Time, 
> vencloviene at h... writes:

> Perhaps we're just all hopeless romantics. By the way, does Snape
have any 
> male fans?

Well, yeah, me I guess. I taught like Snape, and had 
sense enough to bail out of teaching.

I keep wondering what Snape is there for. At the end of
PoA, I got the feeling that he is there to be the Teacher
You Love to Hate; brain candy for young readers who
know which teacher of theirs they would like to see 
frothing hysterically at the mouth.

Now, I wonder if the whole HP series is about Snape. 
He seems to me to be the most developed character
by the end of PoA. When we find out what he really is, 
or when he is tranformed, it will be a major resolution 
in the HP story.

To me, he seems like the cop in Les Miseribles where
the struggle is between two ideas of good,
rather than between good and evil per se.


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