[HPforGrownups] Re: I was wrong (contains spoilers, lots and lots of them)

[Maeg]

No: HPFGUIDX 172396


Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote:

> I actually felt very confident -- I mean, *very* confident! -- of my
> DDM!Snape position all along.  I would listen to other arguments, I
> would read posts, but I always had a little inner smirk going, and a
> silent thought to myself, "I'm not budging; I think I've got this
> one nailed."  (So I was very, very happy to find out I was right.)
>
> BUT.
>
> In the early parts of DH, after the scene at Malfoy Manor and after
> I looked back to confirm it had indeed been Snape who'd provided
> the 'four days before his birthday, not the night before'
> information, I had my first BIG moment of doubt about my position as
> a DDM!Snaper.  (Not a Snape lover, mind you, but a full-fledged DDM!
> Snaper.)

I had exactly the same reaction. I had to force myself to stop  
reading several times (otherwise I'd have burned through it in less  
than a day), and after this scene, when I was weeding the garden, I  
thought to myself: "Ambiguous!Snape has left the building."

I wasn't too sure how I felt about that, but I've learned that I  
don't enjoy work like JKR's if I analyze it too much before I've  
finished the book. So I pressed on, and happily was rewarded at the end.

Well, I was happy to be right, but it was pretty boring to have it  
all done in exposition. Yeah, I know it was a flashback, but it was  
like exposition to me. Too much of JKR "telling" instead of  
"showing." But that's a common fault with her writing.

Maeg

My mind isn't always in the gutter -- sometimes it comes out to feed.