Lets ask the kids (was getting anything right)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94126

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
> x
> > 
> > 
> > Susan [chortling, because many of you know how I feel about Snape, 
> > especially Rickman!Snape]:
> > 
> > The first thing which came to my mind was my 7-year-old daughter's 
> > comment last night.  We were watching the new PoA trailer and I 
> > (having watched it a mere 30 or so times before this) was 
> > saying "Turn to page 394" along w/ Rickman!Snape.  I laughed and 
> > said, "Isn't that great?"  Kristen looked at me like I was nuts and 
> > said, "Snape's MEAN."
> > 
> > Siriusly Snapey Susan...who knows on one level her daughter is 
> > correct but who hopes on the level that *matters* that her daughter 
> > is wrong.
> 
> Potioncat:
> Dito for for the signature comment.
> My 14 year old daughter watches horror movies that I won't even let 
> her tell me the plot of because they would give me nightmares.  She 
> says the scariest scene she has ever seen in any movie is the scene 
> in SS/PS where Snape quietly walks up on the trio and says "Good 
> afternoon."
> 
> The way this fits into canon is that Snape is very very frightening 
> to children.  which is why I think JKR is surprised that he has so 
> many fans.  It is supposed to be a big surprise when he turns out to 
> be the good guy.
> Potioncat

In contrast, how about a ten-year-old boy whose reaction to the
trailer scene where Rickman!Snape spreads his arms to (presumably)
protect the kids from the werewolf: "Snape's getting nicer in each
movie, isn't he?" (I guess he forgot that the book's version of that
incident isn't quite the same.) From the same little font of wisdom,
regarding GoF: "We know Harry doesn't die in this book because his
name's in the title of the next one."

Carol