JKR's dealing with emotions /Harry's grief over Sirius - realistic

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 147483

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at ... wrote:
 You also tend to foist your moral expectations on others,
> especially JKR, with statements like "If she doesn't punish Snape 
karmically,
> then she will have reprehensively failed her readers."--
(paraphrased) It comes
> off as a bit pompous and unfair to me, and I feel a bit defensive 
of JKR. But
> that may just be my perspective. I'm sure JKR isn't bothered ;-) 


Absolutely I foist my moral expectations on JKR and I make no 
apology for that whatsoever.  I fight tooth and nail for what I am 
firmly convinced is morally correct and I expect others to do 
likewise, and to give as good as they get.  And absolutely I hold 
that if Snape is not punished for his child abuse that JKR will have 
reprehensibly failed, and I think that is a perfectly fair judgment, 
which, as you say, will not bother her in the least.  And you are 
quite right that I am a very pompous individual, for which once 
again I make absolutely no apology whatsoever, nor am I going to 
change.


Carol wrote in 147457:

>And a rereading of all six books brings us no closer to 
understanding
Snape. The clues that he's DDM! (especially in SS/PS and GoF but also
in the other books) are as solid-seeming as ever (Note that I said
"solid-seeming," not "solid." I'm not claiming my opinion as fact),
and no amount of sarcasm to his students or unfair point-taking on 
his
part can make them go away. Not even the revelation that he was the
eavesdropper can do that.<

Agreed.  Nothing you have cited in any way proves that Snape is not 
loyal to Dumbledore.  However, many of use are not JUST interested 
in where Snape's loyalties lie.  I, personally, am not really 
interested at all in whether the man is loyal to DD or not.  What 
several of us ARE interested in that he is, based on our values and 
understanding of common decency, a thoroughly contemptible human 
being.  And I, at least, hold that if he is not specifically and 
clearly punished for the reprehensible abuse he has inflicted on 
Harry and Neville, in particular, JKR will have failed spectacularly 
and unspeakably (pun very much intended) by speaking approvingly of 
the abuse of children.  Snape's loyalties to Dumbledore or not are 
irrelevent to that issue.  Sorry.


Lupinlore