[HPforGrownups] Re: Hearing from the Great Middle...well not really...

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 140345

> vmonte wrote:
> Something that I find interesting in the Snape debates is that
> nothing JKR says in her interviews about Snape is ever
> considered as canon evidence.


I think that if JKR thought that people weren't evaluating Snape's
character and motivations and future actions because they felt that
something she'd said in an interview ("sadistic", "isn't too nice")
made the effort irrelevant, she'd never give an interview again until
the last book was published and out for at least a year.

Also the interviews are off-the-cuff and spontaneous and they reflect
the knowledge the reader has of the characters at that moment in the
series' publication.  So I don't see why they should attain the level
of "canon" compared to what she actually wrote in the books.

At Betsy says, it's more like "commentary" rather than an addition to
the text.




		
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