[HPforGrownups] Re: Medieval attitudes was Saving Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 137721


--- lupinlore <bob.oliver at cox.net> wrote:

> Chuckle.  I don't think we have, to be fair.  It all depends on how 
> it turns out.  At the moment, the saga has a great deal of promise.  
> It it DOES follow expectations though - i.e. if it turns out that 
> Snape is Dumbledore's man through and through, etc., then I would 
> say you've pegged it -- ultimately, for all its great moments, the 
> story in the end was boring, contrived, unsatisfying, and will have 
> said nothing, in its ultimate plot, really meaningful or believable.

Yeah what the grand Snape debate (at least on HPFGU) really comes down is each reader
(whatever 'sides' you lean toward) project his/her own demand for JKR for favoring their
vision+expectation, with the same excuse of "well that makes the story boring, contrived,
unsatisfying okay!?!?".  That is the weakest argument you can have, because those who
disagree with you say the same thing about your dear mighty vision.  The way I see it,
the always no subtlety, black & white Harry, being "right" (despite still so many
unanswered mysteries and deliberate textual ambiguities) about the often misunderstood
Snape is *extremely* contrive, boring and unsatisfying. JKR has played fair, she put a
lot of textual clues and ambiguities. She refused to confirm anything in interview, and
she loves and encourages Snape theories. I've seen a lot of Pro-Snape theories based on
analyzing and speculating textual clues, but most the black&white evil Snape arguments
I've seen, instead of basing in text, always just boil down to "I hate Snape, now i have
a reason to be in denial all his ambiguities and hate him as nothing but a evil
villain!!" or bunch of completely biased righteous self-projection onto what you think
JKR's theme is, what makes a better book in your opinon (as if you know better than JKR).
These gets old and tiring very quickly.

And just a reminder for those who thinks HBP should be the end for Harry being right, coz
OMG there's only one book left~~~ Let's not forget we still have an unresolved theme of
"eyes", of glasses being Harry's "weakness", and glasses as a metaphor of a bias filter
that Harry used to see the world. And then there's Lily's eyes...

D.
Contrive... *chuckle*...as if the Super Love power hero Harry, Spiderman!break up Harry
isn't contrive enough...spare me more of contrived Harry who's so freaking dull,
reactionary in HBP and have him do something cool for once puhlease~