SWAN, SIDD, and SILL: Wild Snape Scenarios

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124931


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" 
<bob.oliver at c...> wrote:
> 
> Okay, I've written quite a few posts about realistic!Snape.  Just 
for fun, lets look at some Bangy!Snape possibilities.
> 
> I like the whole SWAN scenario from Pippin (like in terms of 
finding it interesting and amusing).  It does answer some 
things.<  

Pippin:
Thank you:-) 

Lupinlore:
I  think the Snape-as-half-vampire thing has been shot down in 
flames by JKR, but the rest works. <

Pippin:
Nah, she just winged it ;-) The quote gives some can(n)on  to 
people who would *like* to shoot the theory down in flames (the 
vast majority, I admit) but the equivocal wording also gives some 
armor  to the rest of us. 

When she really wants to shoot a theory down she can do it -- 
AFAIK nobody familiar with the relevant quotes is still holding out 
for 'Harry will be an animagus' or 'Harry will be a teacher at 
Hogwarts'.

To me, making something a mystery for seven books almost 
guarantees a bangy solution, in the first place because it isn't 
much of a puzzle otherwise, but also because even if the books 
aren't about the puzzles, they are about the growth of the main 
character. If Harry's understanding of Snape at the end of Book 
Seven is exactly what it was at the end of Book One ; ie he's a 
nasty git who for some inexplicable reason was trying to keep 
me alive, then Harry won't have grown very much.

Lupinlore:

> The problem with SWAN or SIDD is that, under these 
scenarios, why does Snape not do more to wean Draco away 
from Voldemort?<

Pippin:

It parallels Harry being left with the Dursleys, doesn't it <vbeg>

Pippin