Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

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No: HPFGUIDX 105102

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lifeavantgarde" 
<musicofsilence at h...> wrote:
> Stefanie writes: 
> YAY! Someone as interview-nuts as me! I did the same thing with 
both 
> Snape and Lupin to try and glean evidence of a not ese!Lupin Xo) 
Go 
> crazy Potterheads!


"K":
Feel free to email me the Lupin interviews! I haven't made it that 
far yet. 

I am an interview nut because there are so many false rumors going 
around concerning what JKR has said. If it can't be found in one of 
her interviews I don't consider it canon.


Stefanie:
> I may be reading it wrong, but i thought "that question" that 
>she's referring to is the bit about a redemptive pattern. If not, 
>it's ambiguous at the least. I took the whole bit to be about 
> the "redemptive pattern" as in either the interviewer was spot on 
>or way way off. 


"K":

But there was only one questin and that was about love. The host 
makes a statement about redemption and JKR makes a point to go back 
and address the original question.

*I promise you, whoever asked that question* 

I don't think she would be so stunned that someone figured out a 
possible redemptive pattern about Snape. Yet I do believe she would 
find it hard to believe that anyone could think of Snape and love. 
She has made him such an unpleasant person. Who in the world would 
ever catch on that we have a nice little love story awaiting us with 
Snape. :-) I mean, he does have those twins....

Stefanie:

> I gleaned from this (and I know "Snapeguements" go on for pages 
>and pages in this group) the very exact quote "this particular 
>teacher does abuse his power" -- I think in this JKR basically 
>denotes Snape's teaching method's as cruel. He's not trying to 
>mould young minds in a tough manner...he's abusing power. The end.

"K":

I think it a combination. He does abuse his power (the author says 
so) but I also think he is the Drill Sergeant. Not warm and fuzzy 
but he'll get the job done. It's an ugly war awaiting these young 
people. But honestly, I'm not going to even go any further with 
Snape's teaching methods. That's one of those subjects I don't read 
often. 


Stefanie:

> Another quote that had me staring at the screen with one eyebrow 
> raised! "deeply horrible"? "DEEPLY"? Not a light word to use. Now 
>I do believe, as JKR has stated, that Snape is a complex 
> character...One really can't argue that at all, but as to the 
>nature of his complexity? Is it really all that benign?

"K":

I really wish she wouldn't have said that. ;-) Deeply horrible. What 
more can she say? She still hasn't called him evil so I'm hanging 
onto the hope that he isn't. Not that I think she would tell us at 
this point if he were.

Stefanie: 

> Erm...Putting Snape into the category of Gilderoy Lockhart and the 
> Dursleys? What company!

"K":

How could she? 

 
Stefanie:
> She is yet again telling us to keep our eye on Snape. Very 
> interesting...and we needn't think he's too nice? 


"K":

I do find that interview interesting. Does that mean we will find 
out that Snape *DID* something terrible (Prophecy tattle-
tale/other?) or is there something Snape will do in the future 
that's not very nice. Most times I lean towards the past. I do 
believe Harry will find out something about Snape that will make him 
hate Severus even more.



Stefanie: 

>Ambiguous, yet again. 

"K":

She's a pro.

Stefanie:

>Dumbledore believes it. Yet Dumbledore also believed it to be a 
>good idea to keep the prophecy from Harry, believed that Quirrell 
>was innocuous, believed that fake! Moody was hardly 
>fake...Dumbledore may be a powerful wizard, but he 
>is *far* from omniscient!

"K":

But he's also good and kind and still very wise. He is the one I'd 
want on my side. The one I'd trust the most. For now I trust him 
where Snape is concerned. 

As for Lupin, I don't yet believe he is evil but there is just 
something about him that I can't figure out.