Victory for TEWWW EWWW

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 173148

houyhmmmmm:
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> Rowling has made it abundantly clear that for her, 
> loyalty and affection at the merely personal level 
> are the highest good.   So why, even now, does she 
> withold her full approbation from the character who 
> embodies her values more than any other?  Because 
> Snape is the Other.  He was born to be The Other 
> and nothing he could have done would have changed that.
> Rowling, in the end, is unable to do without an Other
> to devalue and stigmatize.  
> 
> EWWWW is right!


Alla:

Well, maybe not. Not in my view anyways, because context that Kathy 
provided down thread is even better than I hoped.

JKR says that she never really saw him as a hero, he is spiteful, he 
is bully, but he is immensely brave, yes?

So to me that is precisely why Snape is not a hero - not because he 
is **other**. You mean other in general philosophical sense or other 
just in Slytherin house?

Because I believe that Snape is not a hero, because even at the end 
of the book he is spiteful bully, because he never made an effort to 
see Lily's child for loyal, selfless, courageous person he is, to 
get to know him at least.

Because he treated Neville Longbottom the way he did. I really think 
that Snape not making an effort to treat those kids **nicely** is 
one of the major reasons JKR does not see him as hero and slaps him 
with justice of being food for Nagini, while Hagrid of all people 
gets to live.


I said it on another list, but did not finish discussing there ;). I 
think that JKR really places a lot on being a **nice** person as in 
being genuinely nice to others and Hagrid being nice is deemed more 
worthwhile to live than Snape, even though I find Hagrid as 
character to be rather blah, as I also mentioned.

Despite the fact that Snape did all that brave deeds in the name of 
Lily Potter and saving the world.

So, yeah my opinion.

Alla.