Simple!Snape? (was: Draco, Snape and Others: Castles in the air?)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 124895



> 
> Neri:
> Is it my imagination, or is your simple Snape becoming more and more
> complex as you try to explain him? And likable besides...

Chuckle.  Well, three points.  First, simple!Snape is your
terminology, NOT mine.  I'd probably call him realistic!Snape. 

Secondly, he is complex (under this scenario) but in a very ORDINARY
way.  That is, people are JUST complex.  So is Snape, being a human
(all the vampire stuff is fun but I think JKR has pretty much shot it
down, including half-vampire, in roaring flames).  But he isn't
complex in some kind of spectacular, byzantine way that is different
than most of humanity.

Thirdly, I wouldn't call him likeable.  More understandable, yes.  But
in some ways even less likeable than ever before.


Lupinlore