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

[Sherry Gomes]

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wynnleaf, who thinks major revelations are to drive the plot and the
characters decisions, not to just give the reader interesting tidbits, or
because either the characters or readers are deserving.



Sherry now:

I snipped the rest of your post because I wanted to go in a kind of
different direction.  I agree that any revelations about any character have
to move the plot ahead, and I think JKR can do that either way, by revealing
good or bad motivations.  I don't want to speculate on it, because I simply
do not give a damn about Snape's past, good or bad.  I don't care why
Dumbledore trusted him; I don't care if he loved lily or anything else about
him.

However, having said that, it seems that most readers expect there to be big
revelations about Snape in the last book, and I don't really expect that
necessarily.  Many people thought the DA would play a big role after OOTP,
that Lupin would step up and become parental toward Harry, that Neville and
Luna would play bigger roles after OOTP, and yet none of that happened.
Often when we have thought a certain plot development would carry on into
the next book, it hasn't.  JKR swept away the anger toward Dumbledore at the
beginning of HBP, dealt with Harry inheriting Sirius' estate and several
other plot points in a few brief paragraphs.  She could settle Snape's past
in a few paragraphs in just the same way.  Even if all it did was confirm to
Harry what a terrible person he was.  I rather suspect it will be more that
Snape's motives were a mixture of bad and good, but I doubt anything will
mitigate Snape's murder of Dumbledore for Harry.  But I do not want to go
over that ground again.  It's just that I don't expect huge revelations
about Snape, though I expect some, unfortunately, because JKR has said there
will be some.  Personally, I'd be happy if we saw almost no Snape in the
last book, and I hope to goodness we don't have page upon page of back story
for the "Greasy Git". 

sherry