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

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 172491

eggplant107 wrote:
> I once said you couldn't have a good Snape and a good book 7, it turns
> out I was wrong. I also said if JKR can figure out a way to do it then
> she's an even better writer than I thought she was, it turns out I was
> right, she really is a better writer than I thought she was.

Bart:
	She used pretty much the same explanation that virtually all the 
DDM!Snape people were giving. The ONLY difference is that Snape was a 
childhood friend of Lily's.

eggplant107:
> But in my own defense let me ask even the most loyal members of the I
> love Snape club something, wasn't there a time when reading the book
> you thought I must be wrong, Snape really is evil?

Bart:
	No; everything was confirming to me that he was under deep cover, 
including him becoming Headmaster of Hogwarts to protect the students. 
And, as I mentioned it, as soon as the doe Patronus showed up, that was 
all I needed.

eggplant107
> If JKR wanted to be really diabolical she could have included 60 blank
> pages after that so I'd feel the thickness of those pages when I hold
> the book and they would give me a false sense of security; 

Bart:
Well, it would not have worked for me; I always thumb to the end of the 
book, covering the text, to see how many pages there are.

eggplant107:
> One thing about the book does puzzle me, why did JKR invent Percy? It
> seems to me an evil Weasley would be more interesting, we already have
> enough good Weasleys. When Percy apologized I expected to see a grand
> betrayal, but no, it turns out his apology was sincere. If Percy is
> going to do that then what is the point of the man? 

Bart:
Because Percy was very much a product of his parents' upbringing. He was 
taught to follow the rules, work hard, join the Ministry, and get ahead. 
 From his point of view, it was he who was betrayed; he had been taught 
to act a certain way all his life, and, when he should have been 
rewarded, his parents treated him like a traitor. It took a while for 
him to get over it, but, as he said, once Morty took over, escape became 
difficult.

Bart