[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's answer to "Was Snape ever loved?"

[Miss Melanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 134700

Robyn wrote: This is what makes JK so brilliant.  She had most of her readership 
convinced Snape was innocent all because DD trusted him... she's 
amazing imo -- just amazing.  She created a character in DD that 
everyone trusted without a doubt -- when Harry spoke ill of Snape 
not only were Ron, Lupin, etc., saying "Oh Harry, DD trusts him" 
but so were the readers.  And the end of book 6 is the ulimate 
shock because no one saw that coming.  What a plot twist.

Don't think Snape will be redeemed, folks.  And while over the 
last two years I had hoped Sirius would come back somehow, I'm now 
convinced he isn't and DD definitely isn't.

Someone posted something about why DD had to die and I agree 100% 
and Harry realizes it himself at the end of the book.  There is no one left to protect him -- he won't even begin to get Prof 
McGonagall involved  because he knows that this is it -- this is 
his fight now.  I cried so hard when DD died (on the NYC train no less) but this passage where Harry comes to terms with DD dying 
and understanding why he had to die... Well that made me feel closure.. It makes sense and it had to happen.

robyn
 
My reply:  And you probably don't think Draco will be redeemed and is probably getting killed right now, don't you?  Here is thing I understand the logic and I hate Snape I do...but the thing is I can't handle him being evil it's just not fair!  It's the whole idea that if someone looks evil than they are evil.  If someone acts evil they are evil.  And I can't handle a horrific traitor like Pettigrew being the rat to be reformed if that is where she is going then I am returning my book and I'm not even joking about this.  
 
I have expected more out Jo than this...I have expected surprises not black and white.  
 
~Melanie


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