The GUT of HP (was Excusing Snape of any responsibility )

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 168250

zgirnius:
It seems to me that a better indication about Snape's role and 
importance in DH is not interview comments which are generalizations 
about Book 6, but what she has actually said about Snape and Book 7. 
Because she went on record about it right after HBP was published. 

> Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet Interview:
> MA: OK, big big big book six question. Is Snape evil?

> JKR: [Almost laughing] Well, you've read the book, what do you 
think?

> ES: She's trying to make you say it categorically.
> MA: Well, there are conspiracy theorists, and there are people who 
will claim -

> JKR: Cling to some desperate hope [laughter] -

> ES: Yes!
> MA: Yes!
> ES: Like certain shippers we know!

>JKR: Well, okay, I'm obviously – Harry-Snape is now as personal, if 
not more so, than Harry-Voldemort. I can't answer that question 
because it's a spoiler, isn't it, whatever I say, and obviously, it 
has such a huge impact on what will happen when they meet again that 
I can't. And let's face it, it's going to launch 10,000 theories and 
I'm going to get a big kick out of reading them so [laughs] I'm evil 
but I just like the theories, I love the theories.

zgirnius:
I conclude from this first, that Rowling does consider Snape's 
loyalties at the end of Book 6 to be one of the mysteries she has put 
into the books. Both because she refuses to answer the question, and 
because she states that the answer is a spoiler.

My other conclusion is that Snape will play an important role in Book 
7, he's not going to be dropped, with his role ended. Because Harry 
cares about him now, perhaps even more than he cares about Voldemort. 
And they will meet in person in the book, in a scene that is bound to 
be dramatic, interesting, and important to the story.

 
Julie:
I think answering the Snape questions will lead to the GUT (Grand 
Unifying Theory) of Harry Potter, which will pull all the various
clues and plotlines together. What caused the enmity between
Snape and the Marauders, the big thing we don't know about Lily,
whatever relationship might have been between Snape and Lily,
who Snape might have loved or been loved by, who else was at 
Godric's Hollow and why, why DD had James's Invisibility Cloak,
why DD trusts Snape..maybe even how Hagrid is involved, where
Lupin was between his school years and his year as the DADA 
professor, and some other plot points that don't necessarily 
appear related. 
 
I have this feeling that if we could identify that one
important element we're missing, then all the pieces would 
fall in place. I could be wrong of course, and maybe the 
solution won't be as elegant and all-encompassing as I am
assuming. But I think it will be, and this is why JKR has 
had so much fun dropping clues and reading all our desperate
--and disparate--theories. It's *one* answer that explains
(almost) everything, and she knows we won't guess that answer.
 
I'd be happy to read any GUT ideas out there! 
 
Julie, eagerly anticipating that "AHA!" moment in DH when it
finally becomes clear what JKR's been up to all along.
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