JKR's answer to "Was Snape ever loved?"

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 134374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 7/23/2005 4:42:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> leslie41 at y... writes:
> 
> 
> If  Snape does turn out to be evil, I'll be disappointed not just 
> because I  guess I expected better of him, but because, well...it 
> just seems so  *boring*.  However I at least hope I won't go stark 
> raving mad if  that's what happens in book 7.  It's been embarrassing 
> to witness the  complete insane fandom meltdown with H/Hr shippers in 
> the past week (esp.  with regard to these interviews)
> 
> I'm not a canon nazi anyway,  really.  (Otherwise I wouldn't read 
> Snarry fics!)   
> 
> Despite my previous optimism, keeping my fingers crossed about  
> Snape, in the wake of these interviews, seems like a foolish hope, 
> no  matter what seems to be in the text.  I think I will start 
> resigning  myself to the ESE theory, and then if it doesn't turn out 
> that way, it  will be a nice surprise.
> 
> (:^I
> 
> Leslie41  
> 
> 
> I really can't imagine a situation with Snape that wouldn't be
predictable,  
> but I hope that I'll be proven wrong.  I have to admit I was
momentarily  
> shocked at Snape really being evil (if he is) because I kind of fell
into  
> "Dumbledore says he's good.  Dumbledore is the one solid character
you can  always 
> trust to be right" way of thinking.  I'm just not sure what to  expect. 
>  
> On the subject of JKR's answer to "Was Snape ever loved?"  I'd have
to  agree 
> with Silence that the wording seemed off.  My first thought was "As
 far as 
> what goes?"  
>  
> ~Cassie~ 

If his mother loved him, then yes, Snape has been loved---which is
something that Voldemort has never felt. (Rowling's really going
Oedipal on us isn't she?)

If it's romantic love, we don't know the background. However, ever
since I read GoF, I've been curious by the Bertha Jorkin Penseive:
Bertha is a student at Hogwarts and is explaining why someone jinxed
her. The reason: Bertha saw "him" kissing Florence behind the green
houses. I've always wondered who was Florence and exactly who was she
kissing? Whoever it was was nasty enough to jinx Bertha. Hmmmmm......

Milz