Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 105508

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
snip 
> In the constant to-ing and fro-ing about Snape and Sirius which 
seems 
> to be one of the dividing lines between the fans, I think there's 
a basic 
> mis-understanding of where some people are coming from. I think 
that
> I can claim credit for first using the identifying 
labels "Siriophiles" and 
> "Snape-aholics" that highlights the difference.
> 
> Siriophiles *like* Sirius; they think he's lovely, sexy, 
maltreated and for
> all his faults basically cuddly.
> 
> Snape-aholics find ole Sevvy fascinating, they can't  get enough 
of him,
> but they're under no illusions - he is a deeply unpleasant 
character.
> Most of them would/will probably be disappointed if he ever 
reforms. It's
> not often that you find a well written, credible villain in 
fiction these days
> and when one does turn up, it's lip-smacking time.
> 
> When the Anti-Snape Alliance flail away, castigating him for the 
way he 
> treats Harry and Neville, nurses his grudges against James and 
Sirius,
> they're really missing the point. We know all that. It's not news -
 it's canon.
> For Snape-aholics the nub of the question is - why? What is the 
back-story,
> what are Snape's motivations? 
snip 

Oh, I don't know. I'd really like to know what in the high heck 
Snape's motivations are, and I'm no Snape-aholic (I personally think 
that any grown adult who verbally abuses children, and I'm not just 
talking Harry and Neville, he does it to Hermione, too, is pretty 
much a part of the lowest of the low). I think that Snape is a very 
interesting character in a Darth Vaderish sort of way, and the list 
of questions I want answered about him is a mile long, but I think 
Sirius is pretty fascinating, too. Like, for instance, why did he 
turn out so different from his family? How did he and James become 
such fast friends? What was him motivation in going to the DoM? Why 
would anybody suspect him turning the Potter's to LV? What kind of 
inner strength did he have that helped him survive Azkaban for 
twelve years? Etc., etc., etc. I am, admittedly, one of those nutty 
girls who had (well, still has) a massive crush on Sirius. But that 
doesn't preclude me from finding him an interesting character, any 
more than my finding Snape to be a repulsive human being precludes 
me to finding his interesting as well. 

Meri - who traded her film stills of Snape from the PoA movie with a 
friend for scenes of the Knight Bus, just cause she couldn't stand 
the thought of pictures of Snape in her room...