[HPforGrownups] Snape as infidel/House characteristics

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 150580

lupinlore wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IreneMikhlin 
> <irene_mikhlin at ...> wrote:
>> The other popular reaction, even scarier for me than the first 
>> one, is the insistence that the only way for Snape character to 
>> achieve satisfactory closure is to have some public humiliation 
>> scene. And as a result, he must acknowledge that Gryffindor ways 
>> are the correct ones.
>>
> 
> Oh, absolutely this is, imo, the only satisfactory ending to Snape's 
> story arc, and the one which allows JKR to avoid an abominable and 
> spectacular failure.  But I don't know that it has so much to do 
> with Snape acknowledging Gryffindor ways are correct as 
> acknowledging that the Gryffindors are correct, which is a somewhat 
> different thing.

That's exactly the point of view that strengthens my opinion that 
Rowling has created a story arc not far removed from Shylock. The funny 
thing is, she could easily do it without ever meaning to. See her rant 
against "media for anorexia" campaign, when she herself is as full of 
stereotypes on the issue as any glossy magazine.

Irene