[HPforGrownups] Snape culpable - and the Three-Part Interview

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 134897

--- Lawrence Carlin <nawyecka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It seems everyone has assumed that in refering to
> Snape as culpable, JKR is referancing the betrayal and
> the murder of DD. However, she could mean culpable to
> mean Snape's treatment of Harry, Neville and the other
> students for the previous six years. Or am I grasping
> at straws?


I suspect that she's referring to the fact that he joined the Death
Eaters.  When he turned his back on them and became a
double-agent-spy, he began the upward trajectory to redemption. 
Gittish and snide redemption, granted, but redemption none the less.

And Snape is not ESE! despite what JKR was snickering about in the
famous three-part interview.  She's not giving anything away and
she's not going to give us any clues this far ahead of the next book.
 She's stressing the impression she's left with us at the end of HBP.

She's playing with our heads, folks.  Don't let it get you down.

Remember how she went on about people getting too fond of Draco after
OOTP came out?  How she couldn't understand why people liked him and
said it must be Tom Felton's fault?  Could a woman who was so down on
Draco have given us the more-human (still a little prick but
nonetheless three-dimensional) Draco we saw in this book?  Scared and
crying and quick to refute the suggestion that he invited a werewolf
into Hogwarts where his friends lived?  

I would respectfully suggest that we stop regarding JKR's interviews
as canon; they're marketing and she's just not going to tell us
anything.  We'll have to wait a couple of years, that's all.

I'll tell you one thing though: Chapter 2 confirmed my belief that
Snape is a Good Guy (TM) and that Harry is in for another major
shock/Learning Experience in the next book.

Magda 


		
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