Snape and Raistlin Majere

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 126483



phoenixgod2000 wrote:
> This post contains some spoilers for the dragonlance series.
>
 Shaun:
> As may mine.
> 
Me too :-)

I've snipped all of Shaun post, and am relying to it as a lump....

Like him I read DragonLance last a few years ago, and my memeories 
are becoming sketchy, but unlike him, I've never played, and know 
nothing about RPG or AD&D etc, it's all so many arcane acronyms. 

Also unlike him, I love Raistlin, and if not quite despise, then am 
ambivalent about Snape. 

Again with disagreeing - I see Raist as having had a far more complex 
arc where evil is concerned. Perhaps this is beacuse I've *only read 
the books*, and percive alignment much more vaugely and gradiently 
than Shuan, as I *don't know* that things need to be aligned so or 
so. 

Mainly though is that we've seen more of Raist and his struggles. 
yes, yes, we've been told that Snape was DE. We've been told that he 
is now not. Even Harry dosen't believe it's that simple! We're never 
explicitely shown him doing something good for the order. Nor 
something bad for LV. 

With Raist though, we see both his good deeds and his bad. We see him 
go back and forth, see his clothes change colors, see him weak and 
strong, good and bad. Very compelling. Snape - not so much. 

Another major reason, that i think may be more personal, and I think 
i may be misremembering, Raistlin has a dignity Snape lacks. Snape is 
very petty, all his "evil" - so far as we've been shown - directed at 
the children of the kids who bullid him in a myriad of nasty pathetic 
little ways. (Dropping Harry's potion? Hermoines teeth? Remus's 
secret, the Order of Merlin lust...My estimation for him dropped no 
end with these things.) 

Raist OTOH...his evil is for power, for ambition, for changing the 
world to suit whatever twisted plan he's got...thats cool. Raist had 
a *plan*. Snape has a grudge.

Really, as Shaun said, Raislins more comparable to LV than to Snape, 
who's only a servant on this or that or both sides. Even if we're 
ever fianlly shown him doing something significant, ro told of his 
past actions...He's still not betraying everyone to start his own 
faction, is he? (Hmmmm....)

Northsouth