Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 148850

Sydney wrote:
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> Sorry I sound frustrated, it's just that I feel like I'm in
> a story meeting where someone is actually arguing for a option that's
> weaker-- less tied in to the plot, less motivated, less informative,
> less surprising, less meaningful, and with some big consistency
> issues-- BECAUSE it's weaker.  How am I supposed to argue with that? 
> 
> 

You know, I agree with you totally.  The kind of explanation about 
which Nora and I are talking would not make for a very good movie at 
all (it's my understanding that the meetings to which you refer are 
part of the film industry).

But then, we aren't talking about a movie.  The kind of psychologically 
realistic take we are discussing might not be good on film, but at 
least some of us think that it is, at least occasionally, good in 
novels.  I agree totally that if JKR went that way, it would make the 
eventual movie rather problematic -- but  that's beside the point.  
There are plenty of novels that work well as novels that would NEVER 
work as movies.  Often it's because they aren't very cinematic in their 
take on things -- i.e. that they just let irrationality be 
irrationality and self-destructive behavior be self-destructive 
behavior and they acknowledge that sometimes human motivation is 
neither logical nor meaningful for anyone other than the person being 
motivated. They don't try to make every answer to every question be 
some kind of deep revelation that takes the plot and characters in a 
surprising or new direction.  That's terribly uncinematic and would 
make for a horrible film script -- but it can make for a very good 
novel.


Lupinlore