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

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 134451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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~ 
> > 
> >  
>  
> Muellem: 
> 
> 
> I  posted this before and the more I think about it, the more it  makes
> sense(at least to me)
> 
> The theme that DD is trying to drill  into Harry's head in HBP is love.
> Not romantic, sexual love - but love.  Harry's mother saved him by
> love. Voldemort's mother loved him, but she  died when he was born. so,
> LV never had a mother's love. So, that is why I  think who loved Snape
> - it is simple. His mother.
> 
> from  interview:
> MA: Oh, here's one [from our forums] that I've really got to ask  you.
> Has Snape ever been loved by anyone?
> 
> JKR: Yes, he has, which in  some ways makes him more culpable even than
> Voldemort, who never  has
> 
> I cannot imagine that a boy that was as good-loooking as Riddle  NEVER
> was loved in a romantic way.  Even Draco gets some.  I  believe JKR is
> alluding to a mother's love in her passage. 
> I think you misunderstood my question.  I was referring to Snape being  
> culpable, not Snape being loved.  Was she referring to all his
wrongdoings  or to a 
> specific event/s? 
>  
> ~Cassie~ 
 
Snape being culpable  - I took that to mean his initial joining of the
DeathEaters.  And if he is now turned evil, which I don't think he is,
that is another event.  Also, him turning out to be such a bitter,
nasty git that he is...

colebiancardi