Snape giveaway by JKR in BBC interview?

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134105

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "desastreuse" 
<desastreuse at y...> wrote:
> Medeacallous writes:
> 
> > But no Snape, despite what she always says about what a horrible 
> > person he is?!

desastreuse:
> Yes, I noted that, too, when I read the interview. It seems to me 
> that Rowling is truly hedging when it comes to Snape's nature 
(e.g., 
> the recent Leaky Cauldron interview) but did give herself away 
here 
> a bit. The omission of Snape is very telling, indeed. The small-
> potatoes cruelty of Umbridge, the smarminess of Lockhart, the
> priggish bullying of Dursley capped only by the predictable 
violence 
> of Voldemort leaves a hole big enough to drive a Mack truck 
through 
> when it comes to Snape's "apparent" cruel, evil, and violent 
> treachery. Certainly she hasn't forgotten potentially and arguably 
> the worst villain of the entire series, he of the gross greasy 
hair 
> and the yellow teeth, the one she just wrote most recently about 
in 
> her most controversal text yet? 

Marianne:
I'm not sure we can take any particular JKR answer to a specific 
question and necessarily make broad assumptions.  Sure, in this case 
she didn't list Snape.  But, in part 2 of the recent Leaky Cauldron 
interview she tosses off a line like "Yes, I've killed off (am 
killing off) my favorite members of the Order of the Phoenix."  Of 
the current Order members she's now killed off Sirius, Dumbledore 
and Emmeline Vance.  From that one could assume that Snape is not 
one of her favorites...or that he's not really a member of the Order 
since he's truly a DE...or JKR was thinking specifically of Sirius 
and Dumbledore, both of whom she's said over the course of years 
that she likes, and is not really thinking about the other, live 
Order members.

Marianne