Unreliable narrator (Was: Snape's stalling)

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No: HPFGUIDX 117111


> > 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. 
> 
> Magda:
> 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.
> 

Neri again:
Erm... now I'm really baffled. You try to make Snape look better
because other members make him look worse? Suppose for a moment nobody
in this forum would have tried to make Snape look worse, would you
also tried to make him look better then? If you'd never talked with
anybody about the books and didn't hear any preconceived notions about
Snape, what would you have thought about him?

Neri 


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