Too "Good" Harry / The resolution of Snape

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 118464


SSSusan:
> > Rather than having Harry be too "martyr-like" with Snape, 
> > [Lupinlore] said you would more prefer to have Snape die *or* 
> > have Snape change.  Do you have a vision for how Snape might 
> > change in a believable way?  

Magda:
> While I personally believe that Snape is going to snuff it in Book 
> 7 (approximately 1/3-1/2 of the way through the book, I think), I 
> could probably accept a personal change that would take place 
> after the last battle, when the danger is finally past and the 
> Dark Marks fade away completely from the arms of the DE and former 
> DE surivors.  It would be the end of a stress and tension that had 
> lasted for years, and would leave Snape in a state of exhausted 
> burn out.  That I could buy, but not much else.


SSSusan again:
So essentially, then, this change would happen way *after* the fact 
of Harry's needing to work alongside Snape, right?  I ask because 
that's what I was getting at earlier in this thread:  if it's 
required in the plot, HOW will Harry & Snape manage to work 
together?  

I've suggested Harry might have to grit his teeth & just ignore 
[Professor] Snape-the-Prick, whereas others have said this would be 
the wrong thing for Harry [no, for JKR, really] to do--that they'd 
prefer Snape either actually CHANGE somehow or that he die.  So, 
while I understand what you're saying as a possible way of seeing 
Snape change in the end...I'm still curious about what could cause a 
change in Snape earlier than that--early enough to impact how he & 
Harry work together on Order business/VoldyWar preparations.

Siriusly Snapey Susan