The Death of Snape?/ Difficult to write/celluloid interview

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 41851

  There was an oft-quoted interview awhile back in which a younger 
girl asked is Snape was going to fall in love? 
JKR, taken by surprise apparently, said that we would have to wait 
until book 7 to find that out.

Take that with whatever grain of salt you wish, but it seems to me 
that we will see Snape for a long time. 

I believe that the one who's death is hard to write would be either 
Dumbledore or Lupin, more so Dumbledore since a)he's been there since 
the beginning,  b)though Cedric's death was difficult, Dumbledore's 
demise would be the first major defeat on the "good" side and c) 
Dumbledore has more of a connection/semi-positive mentorish 
relationship with Harry then any of the other adults do.

Harry's relationship with Lupin really seemed really to be based on 
Lupin acting as the friend of Harry's parents; Lupin just struck me 
as being fairly distant with Harry. Yes, Lupin is JKR's favourite 
character, and he was then most popular DADA teacher at Hogwarts, but 
I'd say his death, in terms of it's impact on the other characters, 
would be harder on Black and possibly McGonagall than on Harry ( 
unless Lupin died saving Harry, which is another kettle of fish...)


I found this video to be rather interesting. We know the JKR has told 
Rickman (and Coltrane) alot about their Characters and it kind of 
shows up in their interviews. A red-herring via the celluloid-that-
must-not-be-named? perhaps... but Rickman does make an interesting 
comment about Snape.

http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/production_notes/video.html