Compassionate hero (WAS Re: Appeal of the story to the reader)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 175648

Irene:
<SNIP of the whole post go read UPTHREAD>
> Please, please don't take it as personal attack on Alla or any 
other reader - we are all entitled to our reading experiences and 
emotions, and there is no such thing as "wrong reading" of any book. 
I didn't shed any tears when Sirius had died either.
> Attack on JKR, on the other hand? You bet.


Alla:

So, Irene I am just trying to understand what **was** your point in 
this post?

In the post upthread I said that I certainly found Snape's end to be 
fitting, carmic justicing and all that, that I certainly was happy 
about Snape's end.

I especially agreed with Lupinlore about the reasons WHY I found 
Snape's death to be fitting.

And here you are quoting me that I was happy earlier? Um, yeah, I 
was. 

At the same time I found his death to be gruesome. I would not want 
to reread the scene - meaning the process of Nagini biting hi, and 
the wounds on his neck, etc. Not that I thought that he deserved any 
other death. Same thing actually as I do not want to reread the 
Dumbledore's death. I am funny that way about Potterverse's deaths 
for different reasons.

I was not crying or anything like that. I was quite content with 
future generations of Hogwarts students never seeing Snape teaching 
ever again.

Were you trying to show my ""conflicting"" reaction to the scene or 
something like that? That I was contradicting myself or something? 
As if people never change their minds on the positions and need to 
be shown that.

But if you were I do not find my reaction to be at all conflicting 
on this issue. I did not find the **description** of Snape's death 
to be enjoyable, but at the same time I found the end to be highly 
fitting.

Alla.