[HPforGrownups] Re: What's wrong with Mean!Snape ?

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 115303

> No, it isn't very realistic.  You are right that if JKR is striving
> for realism, then neither outcome is necessary for Snape.  My own
> personal suspicion is that redemption will come after death, as I
> don't see Snape (or Dumbledore, for that matter) surviving the
> series.  But we will see in time whether JKR follows the "realistic"
> path or the path of more traditional literary tropes.
>
> Dzeytoun


Feklar--

Ironically, I was talking about who would die at the end with a friend the
other day.  Our conclusions was there wouldn't be any point in redemption
through death for Snape--he's already redeemed himself by changing from the
bad side to the good.  But I'm not sure JKR really gois in for the
redemption through self-sacrificial death thing.  I mean, Sirius could have
done with a little redemption (not by death, just could have learned to grow
up and solve his problems instead of wallow or make them worse (not unlike
Snape)), but instead he got a relatively pointless death.

I also thought that if Harry died in the end, I think it would ruin
something of the books for me, because he never would have had the chance to
be a real person and live his life without the weight of destiny on him.
That just seems to run counter to the more life-affirming aspects of the
series (i.e. that being a hero isn't the greatest aspiration you can have).

Feklar