[HPforGrownups] Why we'll get no further revelations that Snape is Really Evil (even if he is)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 169750

wynnleaf
Many posters who believe Snape is either Ever So Evil, loyal to Voldemort,
or loyal to Dumbledore, but still really nasty, speculate that DH is going
to have further revelations showing us new Bad Things about Snape.  

But we're not going to find out those things.  Why?  JKR doesn't need to
convince Harry, or any other character, that Snape is a Bad Man, hates
Harry, is disloyal to Dumbledore, and EVIL.  


Sherry now:
I actually agree with you, and I disagree.  I don't think we'll get, and I
hope we don't get chapter upon chapter of Snape's back story.  The several
chapters about Tom Riddle in HBP were the points of the book that put me to
sleep every time.  I hope we are not treated to another flood of *any*
character's back story.  I thought that some years ago, after POA I think,
someone asked JKR if she would give us more back story on the Marauders, and
she said no, not much, because it's Harry's story she's writing, not the
adult characters' stories.  I suppose we'll have to get some information
about Snape, but I hope it's brief, told in few words and doesn't take up
much book space.  To make the story too much about Snape would take away
from why I read the books, to read about Harry's adventures, for me anyway.
It's always been mostly about Harry for me, even though I like some of the
adult characters very much.  But seriously, the Tom Riddle chapters made me
fall asleep every time I came to one, and I still don't know everything that
happened in them.  I feel the same way about any of the other adult
characters.  After POA, I desperately wanted to know more about the
Marauders.  Now, I just don't care in the same way.  They have served their
purpose to the story, and only whatever we have to learn about lily--please
let it be she was not so sainted after all--and whatever the important
reason Sirius had to die are all we'll get, I hope!  Harry has to find and
destroy the horcruxes and figure out how to vanquish Voldemort, and that
along with the interaction between him and his friends and whatever enemies
come along should be enough.  I think for me that's about all I can stand!  


Sherry