Twist JKR?/ Some spoilers for Les Miserables

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 141781


> Alla:
> Oh, and I LOVE "Les Miserables". Talk  about great story of  the 
> redemption. The difference why the story of  Jean Valjan worked so 
> well for me as redemption story is because we SEE  Valjan being 
> genuinely remorseful for his sins ( which IMO are so small and  
> insignificant in comparison to Snape's <snip> we see him being nice 
> to all people and keep sacrificing his own happiness for Kosette   
> and Marius (spelling?). I believed Valjan remorse because I read 
> about it on the  pages over and over again, I cried when he died.
> 
> Going back to Snape, I think that his remorse is only hinted to in 
> very brief passing, everything  else is just us filling out the 
> blanks. 
> Julie:
> <snip>Snape's deep remorse, or lack
> thereof, is something that can't come until the end. That's when 
> we'll find out if whether it's appropriate to cry over his death ;-)

Valky:
<g> I know Alla des love to speculate on the eventual revelation of
Snape. And I admit enjoying many of the intense bangy karmic
retributions that Alla flags for his final scenes. I, too, think a
sharp stinging slap that resonates ache right to the heart is
necessary for the completion of Snape character arc. But like Julie, I
think regardles of where it lays and what it pulls together, it cannot
be revealed til the end. Snape IMO is needfully used in his ambiguous
shadow behind Harry, role. Any categorical revealing of his nature,
before time, would just necessitate inventing someone else to hang
ominously in the wings while the 'other' bad guy slips between our
grasping fingers. IOW it just wouldn't be the same without him would
it. And I know you both agree with that <g>

What I really intended to address was Alla's lovely comparison with
Les Miserables, which I also loved and cried over. It makes me wonder
if we already have a nice big hint of Snape having been showing his
remorse throughout the series, on a daily basis (Jean Val Jean style)
and that all it would take is for a revelation to make us all pour
like waterfalls at the end. Naturally I have a suggestion <g>, lets
consider what seems to be obvious now in the matter of Snapes remorse,
Lily. If there is at all any consideration to be had there, it would
be placing nice, kind Lily, with unpopular, lonely Snape in NEWT
potions. There is loads to base this on, Sluggy seems to have taught
them both and his testimony is a given that they both made it to NEWTs
in the subject. 

So what does that mean? Well it hints *anvil* size that if Lily and
Snape ever had any rapport at all. It existed primarily and possibly
even exclusively *in that dungeon*. You know the one <g> The one Snape
taught in for 15 years!

It's open and shut then IMHO. If his crime against the sweet Lily
Evans was Snapes great tale of remorse then it would be somewhat
redemptive to spend fifteen years in the dungeon where he knew her, a
daily reminder of the sweet girl who never did him any harm, while he
took such a hand in destroying her whole life.

Just a thought.

Valky