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[colebiancardi]

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> Nora wrote:
> This has also
> just been echoed by the JKR commentary on the Today Show:
>
> "Was Snape always intended to be a hero?" "Is he a hero? I don't see
> Snape as a hero... he's very brave, but..." "Would he have protected
> Harry if he hadn't loved Lily?" "No, not at all."
>
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>
> Putting it all together: childhood love but still willing to join the
> Death Eaters, begging your evil boss for her life (but forget the
> husband and child), protecting only out of a personal love for a
> long-dead woman who you probably didn't have any contact with after
> school and thus wouldn't *know* anymore in many ways. In the end, it
> was about personal issues, not moral standards. George and Diana are
> both dead theories now.
>
> Unquestionably brave, but....EWWWW!
>

colebiancardi:
yep, I saw that interview and thought, wow oh wow. So, what is the
definition of a hero, I wonder? I was expecting, at the very least,
that Snape is an Anti-Hero, which plays off well with Harry's Hero.
And basically, is JKR stating that placing Snape in Slytherin doomed
and sealed his fate as a bad person with no redeeming qualities
whatsoever, if he didn't *love* Lily? So, the House System, which is
still in play 19 years later, helped formed and cement any biases and
*badness* that those unfortunate enough to get placed in Slytherin.
No redemption. You cannot atone.

What type of message is that? I guess JKR is cementing the idea that
Snape did not mature in the last 16 years since Lily's death. That
there is nothing but Lily. That was my rant earlier about the lack of
personal growth & maturity and making atones and moving on. She
doesn't give certain characters that possibility, based on that
interview this morning.

not pleased at all.

Their was ONLY one person that started out nasty with horrible biases,
which he picked up from his parents, whom we see change & mature.  And
he didn't even DIE at the end.  And that person was a Muggle - Dudley.

I guess Muggles have a leg-up on atonement and rejecting biases that
they were taught.  They get a second chance and they get to live.