"Bad Snapers," Karma, and the End of Snape

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 176303

lupinlore:
> I don't know that the fact that Snape's death at the hands of 
> Voldemort was perfectly foreseeable has anything at all to do with 
it 
> satisfying several karmic arcs.  Many fitting things are quite 
> predictable and foreseeable -- that, in part, is why they are 
> fitting.  Karmic arts have to do with a fitting price paid for a 
sin 
> or set of sins.  Irony, which is what you may be speaking of, is 
> often not foreseeable.  Now, irony can certainly be a part of 
karma, 
> but the two things are very different.  I would say that Snape's 
> death at the hands of Voldemort and by the Dark Arts is karmic and 
> fitting, if not particularly ironic.  His death by Nagini, 
however, 
> is much more ironic, but still karmic.  
> 
> I would agree with Zara that the backlash from Snape's decision to 
> join the DEs, i.e. the death of Lily, is also karmic.  It is also 
> bitterly ironic.  Once again, the two things go together in this 
> instance, but they aren't the same thing.
> 
> 
> Lupinlore, who finds the way JKR handled abusive Snapey-poo's 
death 
> even more delightful the more he examines it


lizzyben: 

Revenge is sweet. I totally agree with you, Lupinlore. JKR wrote 
Snape's death in a highly ironic way that allows people who dislike 
him to delight in his comeuppance. This was not so much Harry's 
revenge, as JKR's revenge.

"Professor Snape, she said, was based on a teacher she 
despised: "The great thing about becoming a writer is you can get 
revenge on everyone."

The Record, Northern NJ
14 October 1999 
Students Meet the Real Wizard Behind the Harry Potter Craze
By Leslie Brody

"She also reported that Professor Snake is based on a chemistry 
teacher who hated her and made her life miserable. "The great thing 
about being a writer is that you have a chance to get back at those 
people who wronged you," she said. 

The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ
16 October 1999 
Harry Potter's creator meets her public 

"If you could be a wizard for a day what would you do and why? 

JKR: Oops sorry, still answering previous question... If I were a 
witch for a day I'd fly and probably get revenge on a few people :) 

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2001/0301-comicrelief-staff.htm

Being a writer is sort of like being a witch, w/magical & god-like 
powers. In Snape, Rita Skeeter, Marietta, Lockhart, etc. JKR uses 
that power to get revenge on a few people.