Why the dismay from JKR?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 114560


Dzeytoun:
> > JKR has on several ocassions expressed puzzlement and some dismay 
> > over the fascination with Severus Snape in fandom.  Now, why would 
> > she?  I mean, he seems to be a very complex character.  Is all of it 
> > just because she is worried about teenagers falling for Alan Rickman, 
> > or is there something else?  I honestly haven't a clue.

that space cadet glow:
> I'm not sure, but I do know she's expressed similar feelings about
> Draco fandom as well. I think it comes down to the fact that she knows
> things about Snape that we don't, and because she knows what she
> knows, she doesn't think that he's an attractive character. He's not
> mysterious to her the way he is to the rest of us.
> 
> That's my theory anyway.

Annemehr:
Or that she's very carefully written them with the intention that they
are disliked, and it's a bit daunting to find so many people feeling
the opposite.  That would put a ding in the old self-confidence.

Annemehr
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