Harry's story , NOT Snape's (was Re: "An old man's mistakes")

[Cindy L]

No: HPFGUIDX 138969

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <lady.indigo at g...> wrote:
 If the answer to his mystery is just that he looked evil, 
> acted evil, fell into evil, remained evil, was evil - that's what 
will 
> disappoint me, if that's Book 7's only approach. Rowling's 
puzzlement over 
> Snape's popularity worries me because it implies that she doesn't 
really 
> understand the resonance what she herself has written.
> 
> - Lady Indigo
> 

CINDY:
I will not be disappointed, because Snape has been such a *delicious* 
character right from the beginning, and I think it would be fine if 
he remained evil.  I, myself, am with JKR.  I don't understand how 
people can like Snape as a human being, other than the fact that he 
makes the books extremely interesting.  And I have certainly found 
his utter evil-ness a great balance to the books.  I think, if he 
turned out to be good after all the grief he has given Harry, it 
would be a little cheesy.  But that is just my opinion, and I know I 
am probably in the minority.

Cindy (aoibhneach)