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[justcarol67]

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I wrote: 
> > 
> > To begin with, I want to know what she meant by saying (in 
> answer to why she made Quirrell rather than Snape the villain in 
> SS/PS), "I know all about Snape and he'd never put on a turban." 
> (Huh? Does that mean he'd never let another person manipulate 
> his will by getting literally or figuratively inside his head? If
> not, what the heck does it mean?)

Pippin: 
> I think JKR recognized that she was talking to a very young 
> reader who couldn't really process the idea that Snape wasn't as 
> bad as Harry had thought him.
> 
> I remember reading a George Lucas interview where he said 
> that kids younger than six or so don't really understand how 
> Darth Vader and Annakin Skywalker are the same character; they 
> perceive them as two different people.


Interesting theory, but if that's the case, a straightforward answer
would have served her purpose better. I'm not sure that it was a young
reader, though, since the quotation comes from a chat transcript. It
could have been an adult or mature teenager. I still think there's
some significance to such an indirect, unexpected answer. Then again,
maybe she was just feeling mischievous or didn't want to give too much
away at that early point in the series.

Carol