Snape again/Love and Vengeance/Ending

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 146088


> Sherry  <sherriola at e...> wrote:
> <SNIP> 
> But not all readers would be disappointed.  Frankly, i have 
> never felt sorry for Snape or cared one wit about him.  In 
> fact, there's been far too much page time devoted to him.  
> He's extremely dislikable, mean, a bully and not very 
> interesting.  Turning him into a saint, noble and self 
> sacrificing would be bad writing in my opinion.


I certainly agree with that (even though I know you take it back 
in the next sentence <g>).  Most DDM!Snape scenarios in effect 
make Snape the hero of the story.  Leaving aside the reprehensible 
nature of making a hero out of a child abuser (which is, of 
course, what many of us consider him clearly to be), that has the 
problem of making the entire series up to this point, including 
the titles of the books, into a red herring.  Now I like red 
herrings as much as the next person, but that's too fishy for me.

There are some scenarios in which I might feel sorry for Snape.  
However, I don't think I could ever sympathize with such an 
abominable wretch.  And certainly I can see no scenario in which 
he can be released from punishment for his abuse of Harry and 
Neville.

> But it would be terribly disappointing and boring to have 
> Harry be all wrong *again* about poor little misunderstood 
> sevvy.  Yawn.  

Oh, absolutely.  That is the other thing that falls apart in 
most "pure" DDM!Scenarios (distinguishing them from Grey!Snape 
and LID!Snape scenarios, which can have many of the same 
features).  Many people claim that anything other than DDM! makes 
Dumbledore into a fool.  But most DDM! scenarios make HARRY into 
a fool, which is, IMO, much, much worse.

> The second to last thing I want to see in the last book is 
> Snape nobly sacrificing himself for the sake of Harry.  or
> sacrificing himself to help defeat Voldemort.  


Well, it's hard to see Sevvie being noble about anything.  I can 
see scenarios where he would act this way, but only for reasons 
that would be -- at the very least -- decidedly mixed.


Lupinlore, who very much does look forward to reading The Divine 
Karmedy, or I Was Supposed to Be DDM! and all I got was this 
Lousy Comeuppance.