JKR's own UV.

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"lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> wrote:

> a guilty Snape.  It requires characters
> that we have seen and known for a long
> time to be OOC 

I think I can guess what you mean but I confess I've sort of lost
track of all the acronyms used to describe Snape, ESE, OFH, OCC,
DDM
.. I will say that I've always thought Snape was a good character
but not a good person, so if he turns out to be as evil as Voldemort
it would not be inconsistent in my eyes and I've never understood why
so many fans have a soft spot for Snape. 

> It would be cheesy for Harry to be right
> after all and DD to be wrong. 

I don't think it would be cheesy to discover in the last book of the
series that Harry Potter is the greatest and wisest wizard of all, it
didn't start out with "Albus Dumbledore and the Philosopher's Stone"
after all. 

> It undermines important moral messages

I think one reason the first 6 books are so good is that JKR is trying
to tell a story not send a message, we have Email for that.

> and implies a morality that is objectionable. 

If Harry were a real person I'd want him to do the right thing, but as
a literary character I just want him to do the most interesting thing. 

> Whichever way she moves to come out,
> the response will probably make the
> controversies that attended OOTP 
> and HBP look mild by comparison. 

I certainly hope so! My nightmare is that book 7 will be so bland that
nobody will hate it, and nobody will love it either. Fortunately I
don't think that will happen. 

Eggplant