Interview w/ JKR [Sirius] AND NOW Snape

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 72600

>Lorien_Eve says:
>I  would've loved to just sat there and cried my eyes out when he 
> died, but I was confused over the whole veil thing. But like I said, I
>think it was the way the death was written. For me, anyway.
>
>Beth chimes in:
>I was a big Sirius fan, too, and I felt no emotion at ALL when he 
>died. It didn't even hit me until nearly the end, around the time Harry 
>started asking Nick to find him a loophole. By then the story was nearly over
>and the moment had passed. I was  especially distruaght by this lackluster 
>death, because in the end of GoF, I was *sobbing* through the whole ending; 
>when DD was telling the student body the real cause of Cedric's death, I was 
> positively inconsolable. And I really had no emotional attachment to Cedric, 
>it was simply the action of his death, and the reaction of DD and the  
>students, that affected me. The veil thing... I just didn't get it.


Greetings, brand new here and wanted to weigh in.

Perhaps I read the books too quickly in the excitement to devour them 
for the first time, but I wasn't overly distressed at either the 
death of Cedric or Sirius. My heart stopped a moment when the boggart 
in OoP took the form of Ron, before I realized what was happening, 
but the deaths didn't affect me much.

I was far more moved by the memory of Snape's which Harry viewed in 
the Pensieve. I *did* cry at that - this glimpse into Snape's life 
was very meaningful for me. After working with Voldemort and being a 
Death Eater himself, to have his most private memory be something 
from his childhood? Very thought-provoking. Maybe it's having been 
the underdog at school before, but I'm suddenly very compassionate 
toward Snape and have a new understanding of this cold, cruel man. I 
look forward to re-reading the series and digging into the Snapey 
nuances, and I hope that Snape will be revealed in MUCH more detail 
in the future.

Who knew that the person I despised in the first books would somehow 
end up my favorite character, whom I mull over during the day?

Lisa G