Resignation & Book 7 Predictions (Way long/HBP Spoilers)

[lealess]

No: HPFGUIDX 133657

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyljd" <ladyljd at y...> wrote:
> Newbie here, needing to vent.  Apologies in advance ...
> 
> After finishing HBP, I remain frustrated and bitter even after a few
> days of reflection.  The destruction of both of my favorite Potter
> characters was bad enough.  (Who knew one would murder the other?!) 
> But this is only the first stab in the heart.  The knife twists by
> revealing the murderer to be deliberately evil rather than the
> anti-hero I believed him to be.  And finally salt is poured in the
> wound by the planting of confusing clues designed to feed hope for
> redemption that will never come.  
> 
> There is no doubt in my mind now of JKR's intentions for Snape. 
I've
> spent some time researching her interview statements over the past
few
> days.  I'm convinced of her thought processes now.  In short,
Severus
> Snape was never meant to be anyone's favorite character.  And Albus
> Dumbledore was always meant to have a fatal flaw: his abundant
> capacity to love.

lealess

I agree with you, especially after reading the first part of Rowling's
interview on Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron.  I have been pondering
the morality of these books.  The author said in her interview on the
Today Show that hers are "very moral books" -- and that comment has
troubled me ever since.  I have been trying to work through this
question for myself.  If these are moral books, then the morality they
reflect seems to be incredibly two-dimensional, at best.  To me, Snape
is the key to the morality of the whole story, and frankly, he is not
only *not* showing a redemptive pattern (unless Dumbledore's death was
a hoax), he seems to have been slotted into the black and white, bad
or evil category, which is a limiting view of life and choice, as far
as I am concerned.  It will be interesting to see what happens in the
seventh book, but I am not hopeful the end for Snape will be generous
or enlightening for him.  Rowling's comments indicate to me that Snape
is hated by his creator.

And if loving your fellow person is a mistake, well...

lealess