Straightforward readings? (was Re: Truth vs. what meets Harry's eye )

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No: HPFGUIDX 140717

Pippin:
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> A lot of people seem to think the straightforward reading is for 
Snape
> to be the symbol of all that's wrong in a world where children are
> picked on, and they want him to have done something obviously
> and seriously wrong; they want him to have killed DD in cold blood
> so that they can feel good about it when he's caught and punished.

Alla:

Just a bit of technical correction here, Pippin. And of course I am 
speaking for myself only, so MY straightforward reading for Snape is 
that he DID something wrong. ( You know, helping Harry to become an 
oprphan, bullying  the children, killing Dumbldore to me count as 
wrong). That is why I would feel good when he is caught and punished.

Believe me, to me Snape did enough to deserve punishment already.



Pippin: 
> Fine by me...but wasn't the straightforward reading of Snape that 
he
> saw Harry as a symbol of the way he got picked on when he was a
kid, 
> and kept trying  to catch Harry doing something wrong so he could 
> feel good about it when Harry was punished? 
> 


Alla:

Erm... Yes. Sorry, but what is your point? If it is a comparison 
between readers who are just as mistaken about Snape doing something 
wrong as Snape is mistaken about Harry, well, then I beg to differ.

As I said regardless on which side Snape is to come out he already
did 
enough in my mind to deserve punishment.


JMO,

Alla.