Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 105333

SSSusan previously:
> > But lest you all think I like *everybody*, I really don't like 
> > Luna at all!  [ducks]
 
Demetra:  
> :)   I actually like Luna.  She's so wonderfully flaky, and 
> doesn't care one bit if everyone thinks she's cracked.  She's just 
> gonna keep on talking about snorckacks and nargles.  I often say 
> that if I could go back and change one thing about my life when I 
> was younger, I would not have wasted so much time worrying about 
> what other people thought of me.  

SSSusan:
And a good thing to want to change, that!  I do appreciate her 
individualism, just don't like all the "ooooh-y" ethereal stuff.


Demetra:
> Plus, Luna made Harry feel better when they had their talk at the 
> end of OotP- something that no one else had been able to do. 

SSSusan:
That would be the *biggest* incentive to change my mind about her.  
I'm just not there yet!  We'll see what happens in 6 & 7.


Demetra: 
> And lest you think that I like *everyone*, I'll go on record 
> saying  that I can't stand Tonks!

SSSusan:
Hee.  I find her amusing, but she's not my fav either. :-)


SSSusan before:
>>> By your [Kneasy's] definitions & examples, I fit into the Snape-
aholic camp because I want to know more...desperately!  I sit up 
straighter when I hit a chapter w/ Severus in it.  But yet I engage 
in what you would possibly call ASA behavior, too, at times.  I 
don't think it has to be an either/or.  It would only be an 
either/or if the Snape-aholics were Snape-apologists.<<<

Demetra:
> Now I'm having an identity crisis!!  I think I'm a Snape-aholic, 
> but I'm not sure if I'm a Snape-apologist. I love his character, I 
> think there are a lot of layers yet to be uncovered about Snape.  
> I also think his behaviour is abominable, at times.  I think he 
> really enjoys verbally lacerating someone he dislikes.  However, I 
> also believe that he needs to act like he hates Harry & the other 
> Gryffindors, he needs to act like he favors Slytherins (esp. 
> Malfoy) and he needs to appear like he's on the side of the DE's.  
> That is what a spy has to do.  Remember what Quirrell said about 
> Snape- he makes it easy for people to think he's the bad guy, 
> flitting around like an overgrown bat.  
 

SSSusan again:
Exactly!  That's my point!  I don't think Snape-aholics are made up 
of only Snape-apologists.  I think one can be a Snape-aholic and 
still argue vehemently at times along the lines that ASAers would 
argue.  I know I bash him at times, yet I still consider myself a 
Snape-aholic...but NOT a Snape-apologist.


Demetra: 
> As far as JKR's quotes go, if in the end, we find out that Snape 
> truly was on Voldemort's side all along, or he returns to LV's 
> side in some future book, I will be extremely disappointed.  

SSSusan:
Moi, aussi.


Demetra: 
> Won't go so far as to call Sirius cuddly, though.  
> Now Lupin, mmmmmm, yes <veg>

SSSusan:
I also replied to Kneasy's post that, while a fan of Sirius, I'd not 
call him cuddly.  Lupin?  Hmmmm.  Hadn't considered it, but now that 
you mention it...??

SIRIUSLY SNAPEY Susan...who's just *so* proud of her name today. :-
)  I love 'em both, but I won't apologize away all of either one's 
behavior.