JKR Quotes about Snape

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MA: OK, big big big book six question. Is Snape evil?

JKR: [Almost laughing] Well, you've read the book, what do you think?

ES: She's trying to make you say it categorically.

MA: Well, there are conspiracy theorists, and there are people who 
will claim -

JKR: Cling to some desperate hope [laughter] - . . .

JKR: Well, okay, I'm obviously – Harry-Snape is now as personal, if 
not more so, than Harry-Voldemort. I can't answer that question 
because it's a spoiler, isn't it, whatever I say, and obviously, it 
has such a huge impact on what will happen when they meet again that 
I can't. And let's face it, it's going to launch 10,000 theories and 
I'm going to get a big kick out of reading them so [laughs] I'm evil 
but I just like the theories, I love the theories.

ES: I know Dumbledore likes to see the good in people but he seems 
trusting almost to the point of recklessness sometimes.

[Laughter] Yes, I would agree. I would agree.

ES: How can someone so -

JKR: Intelligent -

ES: be so blind with regard to certain things?

JKR: Well, there is information on that to come, in seven. But I 
would say that I think it has been demonstrated, particularly in 
books five and six that immense brainpower does not protect you from 
emotional mistakes and I think Dumbledore really exemplifies that. 

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Question: 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. (1999)

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JKR: "You shouldn't think [Snape is] too nice. Let me just say that. 
It is worth keeping an eye on old Severus Snape, definitely." [Read 
the exact quote from Royal Albert Hall, 2003] 

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Dumbledore thought the DADA job would "bring out the worst in 
Snape." [Read the exact quote from Royal Albert Hall, 2003] 

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JKR: "Sirius loathed Snape (and the feeling was entirely mutual)." 
[Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004] 

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Apart from Harry, Snape is my favourite character because he is so 
complex and I just love him. . .Snape's ancestry is hinted at. He 
was a Death Eater, so clearly he is no Muggle born, because Muggle 
borns are not allowed to be Death Eaters, except in rare 
circumstances. You have some information about his ancestry there.  
(Sunday 15 August 2004, J K Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival)

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