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

[ceridwennight]

No: HPFGUIDX 138849

Lolita:
>And it seems to me that JK hasn't given us any explanation of what
>the Dark Arts actually are. The explanations are different from one
>book to another. Either she is going to thoroughly explain everything
>in Book 7, or she is far less skillful a writer than I first thought
>she was. I am reluctant to admit that I fear the latter might be
>closer to truth.

Ceridwen:
I am terrified that it will turn out to be the truth. She was writing 
for children/young adults, not for adults.  Unless she's got 
Trelawney hogtied in her home making predictions, she couldn't have 
known what would happen with her creation.  She continues to say that 
she's got it all mapped out, and even has the final chapter written.  
Even though her writing has changed over the years.  She keeps the 
chapter put aside to be inserted into the last book no matter what.

I think that explains any plot holes people might see.  It could even 
explain the depth we're all reading into the characters and the plot
(s).  We're seeing depth where there is only inconsistency.

She has one book to go, according to all the interviews.  Seven years 
of school, seven books.  And there are all sorts of things to tie 
up.  Snape is only one mystery or plot device, depending on your 
outlook.  Can she convincingly show us either ESE! or ESG! Snape 
beyond all doubt while covering everything else, including a very 
late start at a quest?

Since it's late and I don't have all that good a judgement right now, 
I'll continue.  I do take some exception to the somewhat cavalier way 
she makes remarks in her interviews.  People *like* Snape?  How could 
they?  While admitting that he's a 'gift of a character' herself.  
IMO, saying that it's odd, or whatever the exact wording was, that 
people like Snape, demeans the ones who do.  I could be wrong.  As I 
said, it's late.  But it also shows that she seems to think he's just 
badbadbad and might not see the depth we all have found.  Maybe she 
didn't put it in at all.

Maybe this is just a basic kids' story, where the wicked, ugly old 
witch is really a wicked, ugly old witch who means to stick our 
heroes into an oven and cook them.  One thing that makes me think 
she's going against that is, seven books, with quite a lot of detail, 
little puzzles, math horrors (I can sympathize, I stink at math, 
too), and so on, instead of the quick glosses of the Hansel and 
Gretel variety.  She also likes being sly or coy with her information 
('Good guess') or counselling us to wait and see, or the odd 
statement to someone pre-HBP, to 'read book 7'.

I'm up and down any more on it.  I think I'll stop paying attention 
to JKR's interviews.  I like the idea of a character who is ugly and 
mean, the stereotypical bad guy or lout, not being the bad guy or 
lout.  I do wonder sometimes if JKR has painted herself into a Fame 
and Glory corner.

But, it's late.  I see scarey things in the shadows at night anyway.  
And I know that most often, the tapping at the window is really the 
wind in the trees.

Ceridwen, who might hear hobgoblins, or maybe it's the kid still 
using the cellphone.