[HPforGrownups] Re: Victory for TEWWW EWWW

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 173135

> 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.


If we knew more information, we might have a second- Draco Malfoy. Clearly 
his mum changed her mind and helped out Harry by not giving away that he was 
still alive, and we have it that the trio saved his life TWICE. Because he's 
not detailed in the epilogue, except to get a "brief" hint that he wasn't 
hated, we don't know if he did a 180 also, or at least became a decent man 
after all.

Both friendships with Dudley and Draco would have been proper to see in that 
epilogue, I think, just to cement those changes and healing.

Shelley