OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...on Snape

[lee_lhs]

No: HPFGUIDX 64800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rane_ab" <rane_ab at h...> wrote:
> 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*

Well, if Snape was my character, and I wanted him to do something bad 
(or establish that he has done something really disgusting), but at 
the same time make him a human being... I'd do the same thing as JKR 
is currently doing with Snape.
She portrays him as mean and all, but he's not one dimensionally 
mean. He's human and as such has some good traits in him. He has a 
history, a past. But something inside him is severly broken and that 
makes him vulnerable to the Darkness. 
The drawback about dark arts seems to be that the really bad stuff 
only works if you WANT it to work, like the crucio spell. Allowing 
Snape to teach DADA when he is using every chance to tantalize his 
students in Potions would, IMO, be like unbottling a champagne bottle 
that was previously well shaken.
What do you think he'd do when showing his students the unforgivable 
curses? Remember the pleasure that Crouch jr. showed when teaching 
DADA?
Then there is the still unresolved issues of the past, this very dark 
secret of Snape's time as a death eater, his current loyalties, his 
meddling behind the scenes (and he's obviously enjoying himself 
getting some attention/praise for doing a job well). With all his 
excellent contacts to Malfoy, wouldn't he have heard about Kreacher's 
mission? It was Snape who insisted on Sirius staying back at the 
manor when the rest of them were looking for Harry. Has Snape his 
very own agenda? I think so. Maybe he wants to replace Voldemort, or 
maybe he just wants to be the celebrity just once... 
One other thing: The Occulumey lessons... it made me almost laugh 
when Snape was telling Harry on about how you had to keep out all the 
emotions, when at the same time he himself is so very out of control. 
I was thinking "eat our own advice"... But then I was wondering if 
maybe the fact that Snape *was* constanly keeping up his vigilance - 
maybe to prevent Dumbledore from reading his memories? - was what 
causes these lapses. The other thought was that if anger pushes 
forward memories, it also could be deliberately used to present 
certain memories that were previously "uploaded" via a pensive.

In any case, I am paying attention to Snape - this story isn't over 
until the fat lady sings, and I hope that Snape will not be wasted in 
the end.

Lee