Redemptive Snape

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 138490

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rachel Ellington" <ellcam at c...>
wrote:
> In a JKR interview from 1999 Oct 12th, a comment is posed to her
that Snape has a redemptive quality. JKR says she is stunned and the
person should read Book 7 to see why she is so stunned.  This may put
a damper on the ESE! camp.

Though I'm not an ESE!Snape adherent, I could read JKR's comment
either way.  She may have been stunned that someone hit the mark so
directly, perhaps by using the word "redemptive", or she may have been
stunned that someone missed the mark so widely.

Ersatz Harry