The Possibilities of Grey Snape (was Re: What would a successful AK mean?)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 142977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:

> First of all, Peter fullfills this role.  Second of all, as I laid 
> out in the "What would a successful AK mean", this is not the story 
> that has been set up...

Funny how all of us seem utterly unable to agree on exactly what the 
story that has been set up *is*. :)

It depends on what threads of the story each reader emphasises and 
prefers to see as important, which with the release of each book, may 
or may not be the ones which the author decides to spend time on, or 
which the author agrees with at all.  I remember back to the group 
before the release of OotP, and almost no one guessed the direction 
of the series correctly then: no one expected the kind of tense, 
claustrophobic book without the reconciliation plot (so common in 
fanfiction).  Likewise, a lot of shippers were horribly disappointed 
this time around, and things are (at a minimum) ambiguous.  Some 
readers came out with sympathy for one character, and many others for 
the polar opposite.

Regarding Grey!Snape, if you read with an emphasis upon his more 
positive qualities, you end up with one idea of "what the story that 
has been set up is".  If you read with an eye towards his more 
negative ones, you get a distinctly different situation.

So consider this a plea for marking discussions of structure with the 
plural marker.  I can support my story just as well as anyone else 
can--for the present.

-Nora keeps a kind of mental map of possibilities in her head, and 
admits that HBP forced her to hit the 'undelete' key on a number of 
things she'd relegated to the recycle bin