Where's that Big Reveal in DH?

[pippin_999]

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> 
> > Pippin:
> > Come to think of it, it would have been a pretty weak cliche if 
> > they had, and cheap as well, IMO. Draco's heart (and Snape's) were
> > a couple of sizes too small, as Dr. Seuss would put it, and yet,
> > as it turned out there was room for love in them. That's the big
> > reveal, IMO. 
> 
> Mike:
> I'm not getting this. Pippin, you were around when Amanda vehemently 
> pushed for Snape loved Lily. Like you said, even if you didn't 
> believe it, it wasn't a new idea that Snape could have loved. Draco 
> sticking by Goyle, trying to save him, not such a big story to my way 
> of thinking.

Pippin:
If you've been delving around in the archive you probably have a
fresher memory for my old posts than I have. <g> Still, the way
I remember things, there were a lot of people predicting Snape/
Lily (myself among them) as the probable reason that Snape left
Voldemort and stayed loyal to Dumbledore, and a  lot of people 
predicting that Snape had a loathsome personality and always 
would have. But they weren't the *same* people. 

With Draco, there were people who thought he would
never be Harry's friend, and people who thought he was capable
of good things, but again they weren't the *same* people.

Likewise there were people predicting puppetmaster!DD who
considered that manipulating people in that fashion would be
justified for the greater good. There were people who thought 
puppetmaster!DD would be evil and Harry would repudiate DD on 
account of it. But there weren't a lot, IIRC, who thought  
puppetmastering would be a weakness that Harry would forgive.

The biggest flat out shock for me in DH was Harry's crucio.
Again, there were people who predicted that the Trio would
use the unforgivable curses and be punished for it. There
were people who figured they would use the unforgivables
and it would be justified in the text. But who predicted that
they would be used and it would be left to the reader to
decide?

Yet that is the dilemma we are more likely to face in real life,
at least for those of us who are not personally in a position to
torture anyone.   In DH, JKR was all through instructing us, IMO. 
It should have been Harry's NEWT year, instead it was ours.

And who expected that?

Pippin
wishes a Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating