OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...on Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 64368

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> 
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> One being that Fry mentioned Snape's ambiguity for good 
> and evil and Jo hastened to add that (paraphrased) "I don't want 
> people to like Severus too much...[because of things that happen 
> later on]" Hmmm. Later a boy asked her why DD didn't just give 
Snape 
> the DADA job to begin with if he really wanted it, and she said DD 
> thought it would "bring out the worst", 




on that:
She has said similar things repeatedly. She is setting us up for him 
to do or to be revealed to have done something absolutely foul 
(surprise? no.) and is hinting that we won't know until the last page 
of book seven. (Ok, *he* picked which baby to go after. That's my 
guess. Now if Voldemort went along with that based on the advice of a 
20 year old acolyte well then he deserves to have been shot down by a 
toddler!)
This TRULY annoys me. NOT just because I am a huge Snape fan, but 
because it is a rotten trick to pull on the reader. To spend SIX 
(alright 5 so far) books setting up a character for redemption, 
showing him struggling against himself for reasons unknown to us to 
do what we see is good, then Pull a BIG SWITCHEROO and hide behind 
a "T-t-t-t-t-that's all folks! I said 7 books and meant it!" line is, 
to put it plainly, nastier than anything I can think of Snape doing 
right now.
Now I'll sneer right back at her and say this. You know what? Bring 
it on. The reason we love Snape is Not because he's skinny and oily 
and eccentric and has bad genes (?) and a horrible temper but because 
we *like* living on the edge with him NEVER knowing what he's going 
to do next, why he's doing it and who he's doing it for!

Melpomene, who'd rather see Severus dead than joining in the big 
group hug in the "Love" room at the end of the series.