Excusing Snape of any responsibility ( was Re: Nitwit? - Remus John Lupin)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 168187

 
> Betsy Hp:
> > One of the reasons I'm "smugly sure" (tm) that Snape is DDM is 
> > because JKR *loves* to turn things around in the end.  Honestly, if 
> > Snape was supposed to be evil in the end, I'd have expected HBP to 
> > end with Snape saving the day and everyone singing his praises.
> <snip>
> 
> Dana:
> Although I totally understand this reasoning, I think personally JKR 
> will not turn it around because she turned something else around 
> instead and that is Harry being right, while he has been wrong so 
> many times before. JKR makes the student outgrow the mentor making 
> DD  wrong and Harry right. 
> 
> I am not sure I understand what you mean by "if Snape was supposed 
> to be evil in the end" because essentially it is the climax of book 
> 6,  where she pretty much exposes Snape's loyalties, while they have
> been murky from book 1 to 5. 
> 
 
<snipping the rest>

colebiancardi:

I think what Betsy is getting at is what JKR stated about the HBP
book.  In an interview, JKR stated that Book 6 and Book 7 are actually
to be read as one big book.  So, if Book 6's ending is only the
half-way mark in one book, then Betsy is correct in her assumption(and
mine as well) - if Snape was bad-to-bone, he would be a "hero" at the
end of Book 6, with his true colors showing at the end of book 7 (the
big bang!).  This is a major hint from JKR, as in all of her books,
the one that Harry suspects is evil and bad throughout most of the
book, turns out not to be and vice versa.  

SS/PS - Harry suspected Snape throughout the whole book, when in fact,
it was poor, stuttering Quirrell

CoS - Tom Riddle - a good friend to Harry is really evil.  Dobby as
well can be used as an example as well - Dobby, to Harry's POV, is
threatening his life and causing him much heartache.  But in the end,
Dobby is really a good house-elf and Riddle is LV

PoA - Sirius & Scabbers(aka Wormtail, aka Peter)  nuf said.

GoF - Mad Eye Moody - friend of Harry & Neville; hates Snape &
Karkaoff; turns out to be Barty Crouch Jr and big baddie

OotP - tough sell here.  Umbridge is bad from the beginning.  Quite
frankly, this book is rough as the baddies & the goodies are pretty
squared away here.

HBP and DH - to be read as one book, not two.  At the middle of the
"book" (the ending of HBP), Snape kills DD.  He is evil, to Harry's
POV.  But is he really?  I am not a ESE!Lupin fan, nor do I think
there will be any major betrayals in DH (other than Peter saving
Harry's life, betraying LV).  So, who we thought was bad in HBP is not
really the baddie.  

but again, that is jmho.

colebiancardi