Question for Snapeophiles and -phobes RE Dumbledore, Snape, and Harry

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 114600


>> Kneasy:
> Now, now - don't exaggerate.
> She's surprised at the popularity of Snape and Draco but puts it
> down to the actors playing them in the films - and she's 'shocked'
> (take that how you will)  by the number of web site moderators who
> want to be sorted into Slytherin. Interesting too that the person 
she
> 'hates' most isn't Snape but Vernon Dursley.
> 
> IIRC "deeply unhealthy trend" was the sort of language used by 
those
> who wished to ban - or burn - the books.


Alla:


I don't think Dzeytoun was exaggerating that much, actually.

Here is the quote from Eddinburg festival :

"Also, will we see more of Snape?

You always see a lot of Snape, because he is a gift of a character. 
I hesitate to say that I love him. [Audience member: I do]. You do? 
This is a very worrying thing. Are you thinking about Alan Rickman 
or about Snape? [Laughter]. Isn't this life, though? I make this 
hero—Harry, obviously—and there he is on the screen, the perfect 
Harry, because Dan is very much as I imagine Harry, but who does 
every girl under the age of 15 fall in love with? Tom Felton as 
Draco Malfoy. Girls, stop going for the bad guy. Go for a nice man 
in the first place. It took me 35 years to learn that, but I am 
giving you that nugget free, right now, at the beginning of your 
love lives."


I don't know at least in regard to Draco it is clear to me that she 
calls him a BAD GUY.

I am not implying that fans should stop liking him as a CHARACTER, 
though.

If someone would tell me that he/she likes people  with worldview of 
Draco or Snape in RL, THEN I would be worried, I suppose.