[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape, Snape, Loverly Snape...and authorial intent

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 148243


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  From: nrenka 

  I feel like I've written this before--wait, I have--but I'll go once 
  again. :)  Harry hasn't, and readers who strictly follow his 
  viewpoint are therefore not terribly shocked, although I still think 
  the events are BANGy to Harry out of sheer horror.

  kchuplis:

  Agreed. It is one thing to dislike and mistrust someone, even to a great degree, and see that person (who, even with Harry's feelings, he *does* know has been for an unknown reason, protective of Harry upon occassion) blow away the most revered wizard in ages as well as your mentor. I think that in our era of TV cop and court shows, as well as murder mystery novels, etc. we tend to just say "oh that's the bad guy. I knew that. I saw that coming" and that is a different thing than a character POV of someone in that moment. That's kind of the whole point of horcruxes too. We discuss them almost as though they are common (what did LV plan; which murder was meant for which horcrux; oh, maybe you just give a little spell to accomplish it) while in the actuality of Potterverse, this is practically an unheard of device to use once, let alone multiple times. It is regarded (or would be if more knew of it) as highly heinous. We, the reader, have gotten used to that device but to DD and Harry, this is enormous in its implications. I rather think that Snape offing DD has become kind of well, casual to us, but for Harry, it was as big of a step as LV making horcruxes. One thing to think about or imagine happening and another to see it in action. I truly believe that to JKR it is not casual either. 

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