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

[lady_aidil]

No: HPFGUIDX 134740

Miss Melanie :
 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.  
 


 
I agree with you.

I still think that nobody is only evil and the
 
appeareances are too often only "the smoke screen" so I don`t judge 

people by it and would like to see more complicated plot than the 

examples from the fairytales where the ugly hag is irrevocably bad 

and the beautiful hero is the good one. 

White and black is suitable for small children, but when I want to 

stimulate intelectually I prefer something more sophisticated.

I want to see the redeemed Slytherin,not the good one from the 

beginning, but the sinful person who will atone the crimes, alas 

the most probable sinner with hope for redemption is Pettigrew, 

perhaps Percy as well, which means that only Gryffindors could go 

astray and come back to the right path, yet no hope for bad 

Slytherins.

Such a simplistic reality,indeed.

Lady Aidil