Victory for TEWWW EWWW?? Snape the hero

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 173273

> Alla:
> I totally respect your interpetation, I just disagree that your 
> interpetation is stronger than mine, since author allegedly had 
> something different in mind, you know?
> 
> Leslie41:
> I respect your opinion as well, but authorial intent can't be used 
as 
> a support for your argument, because it's irrelevant.


Alla:

Who makes the determination though that authoritarial intent is 
irrelevant? Is it irrelevant because it does not support your 
interpetation or is it irrelevant for any other reasons?

We are going into tennis match territory, so I am going to bow out 
pretty soon, but I just do not get it.

If you think that author lacks a proper perspective to claim what is 
her own creation, well that is your right, but it just seems to be 
that 
you cannot make such determination for other people. Maybe you are 
not 
doing it, but it reads like that to me.

If you say that author's intent is irrelevant **to you**, Ok, makes 
sense to me. I had also read books, where I took out of them 
something 
totally different that author wanted me to see.

But if you are saying that **author's intent is irrelevant, period**, 
then NO, sorry, I do not buy it.

Because to me, **nobody** knows Snape better than JKR, because she 
created him.

Nobody **has to** take her word in the interviews of who he is, but 
**I** think it is very relevant, and will take her word for it more 
than anybody else's.

And it is not like I was not surprised by her revelations - I would 
never ever considered Snape to be brave, I would definitely thought 
of 
him as coward after book 6.

JKR says and **shows** in the text that he is brave, okay then - I 
take 
her word for it.

But JKR also tells and shows in the text to me that he is **no hero** 
that he is **spiteful and bully** and I also happily take her word 
for 
it.

Nobody has to do it, But I am.

JMO,

Alla.