Could I be wrong about Snape being evil?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 156548


Eggplant wrote: 
> But if she really did say "Your opinion, I would say, is right" does
> that prove Snape is good? Well, maybe not 100% proof, but for me to
> continue to insist the man is evil I'd have to do what I've accused
> others of doing and engage in mental back flips and contortions. The
> fact that a man like Salman Rushdie does not think the idea of a 
good
> Snape is ridiculous also makes me rethink my position.

Snipping Eggplant's theories as to how the Tower scene might make 
sense with a Good!Snape.

And after I came to I (potioncat) wrote:

Uh....rabid Snape supporter that I am. Constant Snape-apologist that 
I am. Long time Snape-aholic that I have been..........

I don't for one minute think JKR said, or intended to say, "Snape is 
good." We are nit-pickers and some of us are better than others---but 
the vaguest of us plays close attention to details. 

The problem is--as I understand it---is that we are 
dissecting "impressions" of the book reading and that none of us has 
a reliable version of the actual question-answer session.

We have two members of HPfGU who attended and there are reports on 
other sites about the event. And I am very grateful for all the 
reports of the events. But does anyone really know what was said and 
what was intended?

Oh, and what is the story about a child upsetting JKR with a question?


Potioncat, who thinks the world is upside down when Eggplant says 
Snape is good and I argue against it. Quick, I need firewhiskey.