JKR's devotion to children/why this may indicate Snape is evil

[huntergreen_3]

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Susan McGee wrote:
>>We all know about JKR's devotion and dedication to children -- she
loves them all, as indicated by her readings to children, her
charitable contributions to children, her disclosing of the book title
to a particularly adorable boy....

So, Snape's treatment of children may indicate his real character.

[snip examples of Snape treating children badly]

I believe that this kind of behavior towards children is disgusting
and unpardonable -- but never mind what I think -- I believe JKR
believes that, too..<<

HunterGreen:
But, on the other hand, the fact that she made Snape exemplify traits 
that she finds horrible makes the fact that he's working toward good 
even more startling and interesting. You expect someone like Lily 
Potter who died for her son, or James Potter who would have shown 
Peter mercy to be working on the side of good. But the man who's 
personality is completely horrible and cruel, and who delights in 
being sadistic, that's the person who you wouldn't expect to be 
working *with* Dumbledore. Snape doesn't have a heart of gold, who 
ever he's working for, he's doing it for his own reasons, but he's 
still a nasty person.

The fact that he's so obviously evil is what makes it so hard to 
accept that he actually is. He's much more interesting as a "good-but-
doesn't-act-it" character. As a bad guy, he's almost a stereotype, he 
dresses in dark clothes, he's a loner, he's cruel, he despises the 
main character of the books, he's the head of the Slytherin "evil" 
house (not that I agree that with that generalization), and he used 
to be Death Eater. As a reformed wizard, working against Voldemort at 
extreme risk, he's just more interesting, but as a bad guy, well, 
he's *obvious*.

[Personally though, I don't think it matters either way now what his 
personality is like. I feel we lost a good character, but (to me at 
least) there's no getting past him killing Voldemort. I wish there 
was some way out of it.]


-Rebecca/HunterGreen