Snape and the Edinburgh Festival

[brandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 111041

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> 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?  Are we to take it that he's really a horrible man who is 
> useful in the fight against LV...and nothing more?  

So she doesn't want us to like him, yet made quite a big deal about making us more 
sympathetic toward him in OoP.

I'm a Snape fan, but not just because he's the bad boy (and not *just* because he's 
played by Alan Rickman either, but my my my does that ever help).  She's made him a 
really intriguing character, and given him enough good points that you can't help but 
wonder what other good things might be hiding below the surface.  I don't think he'll 
ever be a truly nice person, or one that could be described as a "great guy," but he 
seems to have a sense of honor and loyalty that you just have to admire.  

I'm not sure a romance would be terribly in-character for him right now (though of 
course JKR won't say that there WON'T be one), but I would really like to see him with 
a close friend, to see how he acts when his guard is let down.  Because he really gives 
off the feeling of having a facade, but one that he's worn for so long that it's become 
a part of his personality.  It still seems to only be the surface though, and it's awfully 
fun to wonder what lies beneath - if he's even capable of accessing that anymore.

Either way, no matter how much we learn about his deep dark secrets and hidden 
past and true personality, I'm sure he'd never be the kind of guy you'd want to marry.  
Besides, I'm already betrothed to Alan Rickman's voice.

-Brandy