[HPforGrownups] JKR's flipflop on Snape [Was: Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes/]

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 105276




"K":
 
 Royal Albert Hall Appearance 
 June 26 2003
Q&A with Stephen Fry
 
 SF: Whereas most of the characters, like Snape for example, are very hard to love but there's a sort of ambiguity [...]in the first book we thought he was the evil one and apart from Voldemort the most evil and in the second we thought that and slowly we just get this idea that maybe he's not so bad after all

JKR: Yeees. You shouldn't think he's too nice, let me just say that...He's worth keeping and eye on, definitely

Ally:

This quote is very interesting to me, because it's not the first time JKR has used it, and the context is totally different.

[snippage of good examples to reinforce the statement]

akh: It appears to me that the "swing" is on the part of the fans, rather than Jo Rowling.  After PS/SS, fans said, "We thought he was bad, but he's good!"  followed by POA in which, "We thought he was OK, but he's bad!" Then he redeemed himself again at the end of GOF, so "he's good!" He was all over the map in OOTP (Occlumency: he's bad! Fake Veritaserum: he's good!) We on HPFGU, of course, are much more nuanced in our opinions...

For those who think "Snape's doing the 'bad guy' thing as a ruse; he's really just a young Dumbledore" she counters with a warning to keep an eye on him.  For those who think Snape is ESE, she needs to remind them that they must keep an eye on him, lest they miss his noble deeds.  

As you may guess, I'm in the "Snape is a complex, possibly tortured character who has both cruelty and nobility in his nature" camp.  I'm definitely going to keep an eye on him!

akh, who has no plans either to bash or apologize for Sevvy...

 


		
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