Snape didn't kill DD with AK!! And here's the evidence

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Lolita wrote:

The  revealing 
of Snape as the good guy will have any literary value only if  his 
innocence is proven after his demise. Everything else would be a  
betrayal of the genre's expectations.



Julie says:
Ah, but JKR has said before that she wants to turn the genre on
its head (something like that). She's deliberately twisting the genre
a bit, which to me can be a way of improving something that's
gone a bit stale rather than a betrayal of expectations. 
 
I guess it all depends on your POV ;-)
 

Lolita wrote:
Someone also said that Dumbledore pulled a Pettigrew.  Hello?! It's 
DUMBLEDORE we're talking about. Remember, the guy who believes  that 
death is but the next great adventure? Why on Earth would he fake his  
own death? He has no angry friend he tricked to hide from. Does it  
really sound plausible to you that Dumbledore would leave Harry to 
face  everything alone, that he would endanger the position of his 
trusted spy by  making it seem that he killed him, that he would leave 
both Hogwarts and the  Order on their own so that he could be 
a 'shadow leader'? No, it doesn't. 
 
Julie says:
I agree totally. It's isn't plausible for DD's  character, in fact DD faking
his death undercuts his character's integrity. I say  let DD move on to
that next great adventure--it hardly means that he  won't be around
in some way or form to assist or encourage Harry. 
 
 
Lolita wrote:
And, again, in the highly unlikely 
event of  Dumbledore's faked death, the literary conventions of the 
genre would be  betrayed and the readers would - rightfully - feel 
tricked. Rowling isn't  the world's greatest writer, she's actually 
very far from it, but I really  don't think that she is that much 
ignorant of literary theory and history.  The Still Alive!Dumbledore 
theory has the same reek as the  Sirius-Is-Not-Really-Dead one.
 
Julie:
There are a lot of ways to define a great writer.  JKR may not have
the greatest prose, but she's captivated an  audience of a size and
to a degree rarely known with the story of Harry Potter. And the 
complexity of her plotting is pretty exceptional. Her imagination 
also matches those of the best. All in all, I think her legacy will 
speak very well for her indeed.
 
 





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