Gerald Tarrant and Snape ( SPOILERS for Coldfire trilogy by C.J. Friedman)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 162942

Well, this post is of course touches our topic of the week, and 
month and year ( Snape I mean), but it also concerns anti-hero from 
another story, which I grew to love and that again brought to my 
mind the thought of why I love, love, love the characters of Snape 
type and developed such a passionate hatred for that one. 

So, list member recently recommended this trilogy to me ( or more 
like she mentioned reading it and I decided that I would love to try 
it from what she told me about the story). Thank you, somebody :)

These books go on my all time favorite lists and I highly, highly 
recommend them to anyone, but beware they are  very dark in my .

So, attempting not to go into the plot much, this guy Gerald Tarrant 
does things which are much more horrible that we ever see Snape do. 
I mean with book 6 Snape got sort of close, but not quite, hehehehe.

This lovely man kills his own family, gruesomely ( for the purpose 
that I am sure made some sort of sense in his mind at the time). Oh, 
and without going into details he erm... hunts women to sustain his 
survival.

Should be enough on the horrification skale to put me off? But I 
guess not and keep in mind that the point of view of the main 
character also prevails in the books - as in anti-hero gruesome 
deeds are not justified at all.

So, I am wondering what it is different for me from Snape situation? 
I guess I already figured some time ago  that the character taking 
revenge on the child is what puts me off for sure - that is for me 
the last level of disgustedness, but this guy also feeds on 
innocents ( okay, not kids, but young women) and I still feel for 
him.

There is very important difference, I suppose is that we do see 
Gerald Tarrant suffer **a lot**, suffer horribly and funnily that 
helps me sooo much that when at the end he gets some sort of the 
reprieve ( it is really not too much of the spoiler, you shall 
see :)), I am totally okay with it.

I suppose that what also helps me like Tarant is the fact that even 
though we look at the anti-hero through the eyes of main character ( 
who is quite fascinating by himself), Tarrant is also very important 
and we do get to hear him more than we hear Snape, we see him 
changing a bit **within** the story for the better.

We see him committing unequivocally good deeds, while still being 
afraid. Oh, my God, I love the character. 

So, yeah, I guess the conclusion I am making is again - hey Snape, 
if you want me to like you tiny bit - suffer a lot in book 7 :)

JMO,

Alla