Snape Survey, Snapeity, Dumbledore's sacrifice

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 149076

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
> And everyone embraces in one harmonious group hug! It's so 
thematic I
> can't stand it!!  LOL... I'm telling you, there's one thing I'm 
pretty
> sure of.  And that is, when Book 7 comes out, the Snape-lovers and 
the
> Snape-haters will come together upon this neutral ground, and they
> will say unto one another:  "See?!  It's just as I was saying all
> along!!"  
> 

I doubt it.  I think you may be right that the MAJORITY of people 
will be able to accept this kind of outcome, with reservations here 
and there.  But there are a lot of people -- not the majority, but a 
lot -- who are deeply invested in the idea of some kind of final 
BANGS that will reveal much of what we've been told as being 
smokescreen or misdirection -- that is, Snape didn't REALLY kill 
Dumbledore, Snape doesn't REALLY hate Harry it's all an act, Snape 
isn't REALLY an unfair teacher its just Harry's POV, Dumbledore 
didn't REALLY make mistakes it's all part of his brilliant master 
plan,  Dumbledore and Snape don't REALLY disagree about love it's 
just good cop/bad cop, etc.  Those people probably would not find 
this solution congenial.


> *Sydney is downright concerned for poor innocent Lupinlore, so
> defenseless against the patently sane, intelligent, and
> all-too-motivated villains she comes across in daily life!*

Why thank you, :-).  But I don't come across any villains most days -
- and as I've worked for the Dept of Defense for quite some time, 
and for academia before that, that's saying a lot.  And here is 
where we come to the question of semantics.  Ask twelve people for 
the definition of a villain, and you'll get at least 48 answers, and 
maybe 96 depending on the phase of the moon.    


Lupinlore, who now must get back to faxing some forms to support 
some people who support some people who support some people who kill 
some people providing its their turn in the rotation