Favorite theories proved wrong

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 172191

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kamil <kamilaa at ...> wrote:
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But if he's good? Bleh, how very, *very* trite and overdone. Snape can
> be added to the 32489304832 other fannish characters who once were
> bad, now are good, and have very poor attitudes. 
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Lisa:

Isn't it funny how we can all read the same words and have totally 
opposite reactions to them?!  I've thought that if Snape turns out to 
be on the side of the Order (I can't say "good," because he's just too 
nasty a man to his students and contemporaries to be called "good") he 
will have been a well-fleshed-out character about whom the author has 
kept us on the fence all these years.  But if he's been evil all along, 
then I'd consider him to be a trite, flat, shallow character in whom 
the author invested little.

Ah, how I will miss these ruminations ... !  :*****0(