Draco, Snape and Others: Castles in the air?

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 124757


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:
>
> Neri:
> I tend to agree, in general, and I wrote similar things in the 
> past.  And yet, if Snape and Neville are that simple, why don't we 
> have even a single theory that explains all their mysteries in a 
> simple way? You might say that we lack the information to decide 
> which theory is true, but you would expect that at least we'd have 
> several candidate theories that offer satisfying explanations to 
> all the different mysteries. And yet, none of the Snape theories or 
> Neville theories that I know actually rings true. Some sound like 
> they might be  approximations, but none that actually supplies 
> explanations to all the questions and makes you feel that "this 
> just night be it". So why is that, if Snape and Neville are indeed 
> so simple and predictable?

Because there are still missing pieces. :)

I can imagine any number of the Snapetheories suddenly clicking very, 
very nicely into place, with certain holes being filled.  But as 
there are things that we know we don't know, there are also things 
that we don't know that we don't know, and those often exert a 
surprising amount of influence on the story and can only be bagged 
and tagged in the retrospective.

To be honest, I don't think Neville's past is a mystery requiring 
theory to the degree that Snape's is.  OotP just might have given it 
to us rather straightforwardly--it's Neville's psychological growth 
over the burden of legacy, rather than convoluted memory charms or 
the like.

-Nora ain't going to say it, but the convoluted passage written above 
was inspired by the events of the current day