[HPforGrownups] Re: Unreliable narrator (Was: Snape's stalling)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 117061

> Neri:
> 
> My problem with the Snape fans is that the "subversive reading"
> (is this the term?) always seems to be in ONE direction. Somehow it
> is always to make Snape look better than what the way he comes out
> in the text, never worse. 


On the contrary, we strive to make Snape look better than the way he
comes out in too many readers' posts, namely as someone whose entire
presence in the novels is just a combination of mean teacher/wanna-be
toad poisoner who hates Harry because he hated James.  All of which
are at best superficial readings of one of JKR's greatest fictional
inventions.  If anything, we're subjecting the text to a close
reading while stripping away the preconceived notions about Snape's
character and motivations.

Magda

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