[HPforGrownups] Re: Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 148854

Lujpinlore:
> 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.

Magpie:
But not the type of novel JKR is writing--she actually is very cinematic 
with a lot of mass-market in her style. She's not writing slice of life or 
stream of consciousness.  Not that she doesn't ever have answers to 
questions that aren't that hugely important.  Sydney mentioned Bagman having 
his own, rather mundane, reason for wanting Harry to win the tournament. 
Tonks' loss of looks were just love, not anything connected to Harry's 
troubles.  Mark Evans was just a coincidence.  The Droobles Gum Wrappers 
were just a symbol of Neville's mum trying to give him something, not a 
clue.

But Snape's true motivations...I dunno.  That seems like a pretty big issue 
that's been highlighted and brought up over and over.  Whatever the answer 
is, I do think it's got to be something that means something--possibly 
everything.  I think that's one question where the answer is going to have a 
deeper meaning, one way or the other.

-m