[HPforGrownups] Re: Could Harry have saved Snape? (was Reacting to DH...)

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 178086

zgirnius wrote:


I am less confident in my skills at Legilimency that you seem to be, 
but I would guess her hope was that the reader would share Harry's 
experience, that the reader would move from hatred of Snape and the 
vicarious thrill of his death to the emotionally affecting reversal 
of "The Prince's Tale". 

It really gets embarassing, the way JKR keeps harping on about that old teacher. OK, he gave you bad grade, get over it! He didn't set you up to be eaten by werewolf, did he? Talking about vindictive people who can't let go of their childhood grudges.

Even the audience of children seemed to think it is too much. I don't understand how she can keep talking about Snape as being equal to her chemistry teacher after book 7. What she did to him up to book 3 is covered by getting even by whatever childhood traumas there were. But writing a traitor and a murderer, and killing him the most horrible death, and still reminding everyone at every opportunity that he is based on a real person - that really is too much. It's like she wants children to start throwing stones at his windows or something.

Irene