OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...on Snape

[rane_ab]

No: HPFGUIDX 64780

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott" 
<insanus_scottus at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Gargh! 
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> > p
> > a
> > C
> > E
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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", 
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> 
> 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!
> 


I'm wondering, though, if it's really something that big, would she 
mention  it? I don't know, I'm a bit suspicious of her eagerness to 
say this. If she planned to completely throw us over, wouldn't she 
have us continue believing Snape is actually to be pitied? Reading 
into the fact that we shouldn't feel too sorry for him, (just 
repeating Scott's words, obviously I wasn't there)I get more of a... 
personal feeling off this. Maybe he'll do (or did) something really 
nasty to Lupin or Harry which doesn't exactly involve Voldemort? 
Knowing Snape, it's probably going to be something really foul, not 
pleasant at all. Or maybe it's something completely different... as I 
said, I'm a bit suspicious of her commenting so readily on Snape. 

Rane,
who's plotting to kill JKR if Snape does turn out to be Truly Evil... 
Too bad JKR is better at plots. *g*