Greatest creation

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 173153

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowena_grunnionffitch" 
<G3_Princess at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rkdas@>
> wrote:
> > Ah you sparked me, Carol. I was totally taken aback by JKR's less-
> > glowing assessment of Snape whom so many idolize and love. And from
> > your post, you too seemed to have gathered that she is much more
> > situationally positioned in her ethics than previously realized.
> > Snape was only a hero because of his great love of Lily.
> 
> 
> Could her point have been that if Snape hadn't loved Lily he would
> have stayed a Death Eater?
> 
> rowena_grunnioffitch

That is entirely the point, that he was damaged goods before and after. 
His love for Lily, his desire to redeem something of worth from his 
actions gave him what little value as a human that he had. Those of us 
that wanted him to be more than that, wanted him to be a truly worthy 
character, a Sydney Carton, we were, I was, taken aback that his arc 
could be dealt with in such a pragmatic and almost flat way. Snape 
loved Lily. Snape betrayed Lily and James. Snape lived the rest of his 
life trying to make up for that. That's all. It kept hiim from being a 
death eater, which he surely would have stayed save his remorse. And 
that's it. It's very unnerving the effort some of us put into 
understanding Snape and that's all there is basically. I find it calls 
for a re-examination of many things.
Jen D.