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

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 148244

Irene
That's very possible, but if that's the truth, I don't
understand Rowling's game at all. If she wanted Snape
to be ambigous, and his treason in book 6 to be
surprising, then she didn't do such a great job, did
she?
Certainly Harry (together with the majority of the
readers) had never expected from Snape any better.
Surely she didn't wrote the whatever ambiguity is
there just to surprise the small number of
Snapeophiles among us? :-)


Sherry now:

I think that most of us who don't like Snape were still shocked by his
murdering Dumbledore in HBP.  I never liked him and I do consider him a mean
man who does indeed enjoy taunting Harry and does hate a child he'd never
met purely on the basis of who that child's long dead father was.  The
height of immaturity.  however, I believed in Dumbledore's trust in Snape,
and though I detested the man, Snape, I never in a million years expected
him to kill DD.  So, to say that we who don't like Snape were not surprised
by what happened is not quite true.  at least not for me.  i could dislike
him and still believe he was ultimately on DD's side, if for no other reason
than loyalty to Dumbledore.  now, as I've said before, there's nothing that
can excuse his actions to me, and I believe Dumbledore's trust was sadly
misplaced.  However, when Snape did the foul deed, I had to stop the CD and
say, what the hell?  i couldn't even continue reading for a while I was so
shocked!

Sherry