I HAD A DREAM OR HOW I REALIZED THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 166962

Alla:
> I dreamt about the Tower, lol. And I heard in my dream Dumbledore 
pleading with Snape and it finally hit on me (DUH, Alla) that 
Dumbledore indeed does not show surprise before he pleads with 
Snape.  Therefore he indeed must have plead with Snape to do 
something that he asked him to do before.

Ceridwen:
Lucky you to dream about the Tower!  The last dream I remember is 
about wet grass.

I would love to be as sure as you are about this.  But, oy, I've been 
thinking, with one book left, and with it actually being a children's 
series insted of one for adults, then it is time for her to make 
Harry right and the adult mentor wrong.  Harry's been wrong about 
Snape, as well as the other DADA teachers, all through the series.  
Now, he's right about Draco.  Could he also be right about Snape?

I mean, could we all have invented Enigma!Snape in our own minds 
because we really want a literary character with that sort of depth?  
I know I'm sick and tired of seeing plastic, transparent characters 
on TV and in the few modern books I've read over the last few years: 
everything riding at the surface, like a bunch of cartoon baddies or 
goodies, flat as proverbian pancakes, uninteresting in the last 
degree.  I would much rather see Snape in all his complex glory, even 
if he turns out to be ESE, rather than that.

But, with one book left to go, I'm just afraid sometimes that what we 
see, or are presented, is exactly what we'll get - no depth, no 
mystery, just another cardboard cartoon bad guy to amuse the kiddies 
into thinking that grown-ups are always wrong and it's up to kids to 
save the day.

Alla:
> This is a sad day for me, people. I have to go and absorb the 
Dumbledore who could ask Snape to do that. Bye.

> Alla, shrieking in the Shack.

Ceridwen:
I'm sorry!  I hope you come out of it all right.  ;)  But at the same 
time, I really need to hope that you're right.  Sometimes, I just 
despair.

Ceridwen, not shrieking, but hoping for a dream.