Snape and the Edinburgh Festival

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No: HPFGUIDX 111016

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> I suppose I should have snipped a little, but for the first post I 
> thought I'd better leave everything in.
> 
> Where are all the Snape foes?  Where are all the Snape fans?  Twice 
> in one interview JKR made a comment about not loving Snape.  If she 
> keeps this up I might start to believe her!  What do the rest of you 
> think?  
> 
Snape fan here. He's is a wonderfully complex character, but if he 
were real he'd not be a very good life partner. On the other hand, 
fiction, by its very definition, is not real. I think a lot of fans 
who get carried away by 'bad boys' do so with the fantasy that they 
themselves would be the catalyst to changing their object of lust. 
It's fantasy all around. 
>
>Are we to take it that he's really a horrible man who is 
> useful in the fight against LV...and nothing more?  

I don't think any of her characters are mere 'throwaways.' And in 
particular Snape is far too well developed to be anything definable as 
'nothing more than.'
 
> 
> But what I found interesting was the clue about his being a pure 
> blood.  I took her answer to mean that he isn't Muggle-born, but 
> that one of his parents might be. (I'd vote for his mother.) Did 
> anyone else read it that way?  It could just as easily mean that 
> yes, he is pure blood.  But why not just say that?
> 
So Snape as the HBP? ;)

> 
> Potioncat who thinks JKR lost a lot of credibility when she 
> answered "You always see a lot of Snape
"   ;-)

'Them's fightin' words, varmint!' (to quote Yosemite Sam). I always 
want to see more Snape. But beyond that, I have to wonder how the 
author can lose credibility when it's her work and she's damn good at 
it too!

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