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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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.  This must be because younger children do not understand 
transformations: put on a monster costume, and it scares them, or 
pour water from a bowl into a glass, and they think there is more 
water in the glass because it is taller.  This is why preschools 
often strive to have sand tables, water tables, or playdoh tables for 
the children to practice understanding transformations.  But let me 
not go off topic.  I can wrap it up by reminding us how even adults 
have residue and vestiges of this sort of earlier thinking (and 
others), such as how we have trouble realizing that someone has 
changed or that something is not how we are used to perceiving it.  
JKR has been using this to advantage, with all the surprises...

smaragdina5