Too "Good" Harry / The resolution of Snape

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 118661



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> 
> Well, for reasons I personally don't understand, JKR seems to think
> the Trio are much more interesting than the adult characters.  
Weird,
> but there you go.  So I'm afraid that most of the adult characters
> are expendable as far as she's concerned, and that includes Snape.
> 

Yes, that is one of the questions we argue about, isn't it?  
Chuckle.  It does seem to constitute a basic divide among readers, 
this question of the adults.  I have to admit, I am of the opposite 
inclination, and really don't see why people find the adults so 
fascinating.  I mean, we have, (IMO of course):

1) An emotionally crippled, semi-hysterical neurotic who seems to be 
an adequate spy but other than that is rather a boring and 
uninteresting Johnny One-Note with a penchant for acting the fool;

2) a passive-aggressive werewolf with a severe inferiority complex;

3) a teacher who, despite supposed decades of experience, seems 
totally incapable of dealing with the most understandable of 
behavior from adolescent boys, much less of communicating adequately 
with said adolescents, and finally;

4) a headmaster who, despite supposedly being the most powerful 
wizard in the world, lurches from one spectacular failure and 
misjudgment to another

I mean they really are a bunch of pathetic magical morons (chuckle, 
IMO of course).  At the end of OOTP, when the order threatened the 
Dursleys, I was waiting for Harry to say, "Gee, thanks idiots.  
You're only about fifteen years too late.  Now, why don't you really 
impress me and take care of your own Voldemort problems?"

Lupinlore