Snape as having been loved
Cathy Drolet
cldrolet at sympatico.ca
Thu Aug 4 17:44:33 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 136420
> CathyD again:
> JKR's recent interview said that Snape had loved. That is the
> power Dumbledore suspects as being the one the Dark Lord knows
> not.
Nora said:
>>Umm, no, it did not ,
<quote>
Has Snape ever been loved by anyone?
JKR: Yes, he has, which in some ways makes him more culpable even
than Voldemort, who never has.
</quote>
CathyD now
You're right, I got JKR's quote backwards. However, if Snape had never loved anyone, then I don't think he's culpable of anything, quite frankly. You can't stop someone loving you. That is something the other person is totally in control of and you are not. Totally. Whether it was Lily, or Florence, or Narcissa that loved Severus doesn't matter if Snape never returned that love. Snape may already have decided to join the Death Eaters and felt that kind of passionate, romantic love was not something he could easily compartmentalise. I notice JKR did not commit herself as to whether or not Snape loved in return. She only answered the question as asked.
In an interview on 16 Aug 2004 JKR, in response to the question has Voldemort or Tom Riddle ever cared for or loved anyone, she said, "No, never." Now in this current interview she claims Voldie has never *been* loved, either. I have to say I'm having a hard time buying that. I'm quite sure, that while she was pregnant and for that short hour she lived after Tom's death, that Merope loved him. I can't imagine that not one of his caregivers in the orphanage, or none of the children at the orphanage, ever cared for him. Or that not one of his female classmates at Hogwarts ever had loving feelings towards this very attactive, very intelligent, young man. It just doesn't make any sense. I can imagine him not returning the feelings, but I can't believe that no one, thoughout this person's whole life, ever loved him.
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