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

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 133743

In a message dated 7/20/2005 3:35:59 PM Mountain Standard Time,  
ladyljd at yahoo.com writes:


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.  Here are the quotes on which I  base these opinions:



Q: One  of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is going to
fall in love.  
JKR: (JKR laughs) Who on earth would want Snape in love with  them?
That's a very horrible idea. 

Q: There's an important kind of  redemptive pattern to Snape
JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say  to you, and I can't
because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked  that question, can
I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've  said that and
you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's  all I'm
going to say.



Hmm...but if Snape was truly two-dimensionally evil, why say Book 7?   We've 
been given plenty of ammo in Book 6 if we wanted to argue that Snape is  evil. 
 <digs out from under deluge of email for and against> 
 
Also, the Leaky Cauldron's interview (part 2):
_http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/extras/aa-jointerview2.html_ 
(http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/extras/aa-jointerview2.html) 
 
 
MA: …whether this had been planned, and since Dumbledore had this  knowledge 
of Draco the whole year, had they had a discussion that said, "Should  this 
happen, you have to act as if it is entirely your intention to just walk  
forward and kill me, because if you don't, Draco will die, the Unbreakable Vow,  
you'll die," and so on —  
JKR: No, I see that, and yeah, I follow your line there. I can't — I mean,  
obviously, there are lines of speculation I don't want to shut down. Generally  
speaking, I shut down those lines of speculation that are plain unprofitable. 
 Even with the shippers. God bless them, but they had a lot of fun with it. 
It's  when people get really off the wall — it's when people devote hours of 
their  time to proving that Snape is a vampire that I feel it's time to step in, 
 because there's really nothing in the canon that supports that.  
************** 
This comment could be taken a lot of ways, but obviously there is *something* 
 more to this, seeing as she has ended speculation on Snape is a vampire 
(sorry  Pippin) and Harry/Hermione on the same page (ducks copies of Hogwarts: A  
History).  I can't give on Snape until seven people, I just can't.   <puts up 
umbrella as a shower of lemon drops rain down> 
Amber, who is going to be sick if Horace Slughorn is the only  good Slytherin 
to date 
P.S. On the same note, kudos to Betsy HP for correctly predicting that Nott  
would fade into the background and that Draco would show some moral fiber.  
<Hat off and galleons passed>  



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