JKR's best interview

[doliesl]

No: HPFGUIDX 75194

> 2. About Snape
> 
> Q. There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape
> JKR. He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't 
because
> it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, can I 
just say to
> you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said that and you'll find 
out why
> I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's all I'm going to say.
 
> Up until this point (pre GOF) Snape had been nothing but unpleasant.
> Therefore, I can only imagine JKR is stunned because Snape 
definitely will
> redeem himself in book 7. I've always wondered about Snape that his 
life
> debt to James may have been powerful enough that as soon as 
Voldemort
> intended to kill James (& Lily & Harry), this turned Snape into an 
enemy of
> Voldemort (magic at it's most impenetrable - as DD says in POA)

Actually, the question JKR was stunned by was not what you put up 
there. She was "stunned" by a previous question in which someone 
asked "Will Snape ever fall in love?" When the interviewer 
said "There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape", he 
was more like making a statement, not really a question, and JKR 
voice-over agreeing with him by saying "He is, isn't he?" You needed 
to listen to the actual voice-clip to catch that (these details are 
not include in transcript). So the question JKR was stunned at 
and "you'd find out why in Book 7" was referred to the "Snape in 
love" question. 

D.