Love(able) Snape vrs Re: Redemptive Snape

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 138492

Rachel and Ersatz Harry were discussing a JKR quote and now, I'm not 
sure which one of them said which part of the section below:

> > 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.


Potioncat:
Readers can go back upthread to Rachel's original post for the link, 
but here is the actual quote. I added the (interviewer) as the 
italics didn't copy:

(Interviewer)One of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is 
going to fall in love. 
JKR: (JKR laughs) Who on earth would want Snape in love with them? 
That's a very horrible idea. 

(Interviewer) There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape
JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't 
because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, 
can I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said that 
and you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's all 
I'm going to say.


Potioncat again:
I would just about wager real money that this is the most often 
discussed portion of any of JKR's quotes on this board. The question 
as orginally asked is about Snape falling in love. JKR reacts and the 
interviewer interjects a comment about Snape's redemptive nature. JKR 
is making those noises one makes when thinking, then, she continues 
to answer the question as it was asked: is Snape going to fall in 
love? At least, I take it to be answering the love question because 
JKR says: "I promise you, whoever asked that question..."  

Now it could be that she's stunned because Snape is so horrible it is 
just a terrible idea. Or it could be that yes, Snape has/will be in 
love.

And I would even bet more money that if anyone should ask her about 
this bit of an interview, she wouldn't recall it at all, nor be able 
to say why she reacted so strongly.

In fact, I wondered why she was so quick to react like this in the 
one interview, but so calmly state that Snape had been loved in the 
July 2005 interview. (I know of course, that having been loved, and 
being in love are not the same.)

Potioncat, apololgizing for not attributing the posts properly, but 
would lose everything if she went back to sort it out.