The Many Faces of Snape was: High Noon for OFH!Snape

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 149629

PJ:
>It also shows why Sydney's plan to rid the world of 
> OFH!Snape will never work regardless of how many showdowns at the OK
Corral 
> there are.  ;-)

*pumps another round in to OFH!Snape*  He.. just.. won't.. stop..
twitching... 

Hee! This thread should be called, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"!

Lupinlore:
>thinks that Sydney is probably right about another
>thing, which is that JKR will likely reveal a Snape whose character
>and fate are ambivalent enough to draw in a working majority from
>all sides

LOL, when will people just realize that I'm right about EVERYTHING? 
Anyhow... I'm pretty sure this will be the case.  I mean, look at
Sirius.  I think the way I understand his character is not too
different from people who like him.  The thing is, the things people
who like about him-- his rebel-without-a-cause, passionate,
free-spirit, loose-canon nature-- is just exactly what I can't stand
about him.  Sirius fans see his major storyline-- the Secret-keeper
switch and the stint in Azkaban and his solo escape-- and think, wow,
that guy is so full of life and love and the cruel world betrayed him,
but he stayed true to himself to the end.  I see the exact same story
and think, for the love of mike, if this guy had just sat down for 10
minutes and got a hold of himself, at the very least the 12 bystanders
who got killed when he did his rebel-cop vengeance routine on Peter
might still be around. Sirius fans will go, 'how could you say that!
Sirius was in anguish because of his friends and he still thought of
Peter as his school chum, how could he have guessed Peter would do
such a thing?'  And I would retort, if you're cornering a desperate
armed guy, the first thing you really should do is make sure the area
is clear of civilians.  And they would retort something else.  And so
it goes... 

I think nearly everyone agrees that under the identical situation that
Snape was in on the tower, Sirius would have died rather than fulfill
the Vow.  The result-- of D-dore being killed by Greyback and Draco by
Voldemort and Harry probably by one of the other DE's-- would have
been viewed by people who like Sirius' pure values as tragic.  It
would be viewed by people who prefer Snape's result-oriented values as
idiotic.  Weirdly, both parties would probably view the disliked
character's action as selfish (hey, I paged Dr. Kant days ago and he
still hasn't show up... one of these days I'm going to write a big
post about Kantian!Snape, probably when I'm under multiple deadlines
on projects that I'm actually being paid for).

Whatever way Snape's arc pans out, it's going to be (assuming JKR
doesn't have a brain hemmorage or something between now and the next
book) something dramatic that is true to his nature.  Those of us who
like his nature already will like how it plays out in the arc.  Those
of us who can't stand him will also like how it plays out in the arc.
Because Snape isn't going to turn into a fluffy bunny, he's going to
stay a deeply conflicted guilt-ridden Dark-magic jackass, and his
actions and motives will be likewise.  I can even see Lupinlore and
myself coming here (fingers crossed) sometime in 2007, and Lupinlore
being satisfied with the scene where Snape is 'humiliated' and me
being satisfied about the beautiful 'catharsis' Snape scene, and we
will be talking about the exact same scene.  There will probably be
just enough to make both sides uncomfortable, because complex
characters should do that. 

Olivier:
>CLV! (the last one is Candy Loving Vegetarian Snape, I too sometimes
want to have my own theory)

You realize of course that CLV!Snapers will immediately split into
shifting factions of rootVeg!Snapers and legume!Snapers...

--Sydney, procrastinating.