Snape detractors unsophisticated?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 137806

The best books are the ones you can read and reread life long and take
something different away from the experience each time.  When I read
again a book I haven't read for several years, I find that my attitude
towards the characters has changed because my own life experiences
have changed me.

For instance, when I read _Great Expectations_ as a teenager, all I
was interested in was whether or not Pip and Stella would get
together.  Rereading the book as a middle aged adult, I was more
interested in Pip's transcending his selfishness by learning to feel
compassion for Magwitch.

Was it unsophisticated of me to read only for the romance?  Well, yes,
it was, but that was what was relevant to me as an adolescent.  It
would not have improved my appreciation of the book one bit, for
someone to call me unsophisticated.

I suspect that there is an age correlation working, as well, in the
dispute over the character of Severus Snape. I don't think either
group is going to convince the other. Perhaps people should just stay
away from threads that they know are going to incense them.  I am
trying to do that, although, obviously, I violated my own rule in this
case.

Every reader has the right to get what he or she gets from the book.  

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