Connections Interview re: Snape (1999)

[julie]

No: HPFGUIDX 171602

zigurnius wrote:
> 
> I think the comment was a somewhat flippant remark based on Snape's 
> personality. I, of course, and a convinced LOLLIPOPs believer...so 
> this answer seems also a dodge of further discussion of Snape being 
> in love with someone. And an honest one. If Snape was indeed in 
love 
> with Lily Evans, it sure worked out badly for her.
>

Julie:
I agree that it was a flippant remark on JKR's part. Just as
she calls him horrible, and says "you wouldn't want to think
he's too nice," she simply doesn't want to give away too much
about the character. Remember, she's always known that Snape
would be the one killing Dumbledore in HBP, and that 6th book
would end with the whole of the WW (and many readers) seeing
Snape as ESE. Whether Snape really is that bad, or whether he 
turns out to be DDM, she has to maintain as a negative an
impression about him as possible to prepare for his betrayal
scene (real or apparent) in HBP. 

That said, I'm not certain about Snape being in love with
Lily, but I do think love played a part in his defection
from Voldemort, as reflected in his "fools who wear their
hearts on their sleeves..." speech. Lily, Narcissa, Regulus
(not sure JKR would buck the establishment by featuring a
gay couple, but I'd like to see her do so), or some other
unknown love (Florence, anyone?), I'm not sure the identity
matters that much. (And Snape could-and apparently-did have
some sort of relationship/contact with Lily without it being
based on romantic love.)

Sue wrote:
Just because no one generally desirable wouldn't want him, doesn't
mean no one would. BTW.. remember when she said Snape Doesn't have
a daughter? What about a son?

Julie:
I've always found that a rather interesting answer to the
question posed ("Is Luna Lovegood Snape's daughter?") Saying
Snape doesn't have a daughter could just have been a very
direct way of answering the question, rather than the more
likely answer to pop out of JKR's mouth (to me, anyway), "No,
Snape doesn't have any children! Do you think I would do 
that to a child?!" Or something equally pithy. So a son is
not definitively ruled out, but neither do we have any 
direct evidence that a son of Snape does or did exist. 

Julie, who thinks it'd be great if there was or had been
a son, but figures it's a bit of a long shot.