Did you LIKE Snape?

sistermagpie sistermagpie at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 6 13:48:35 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 183150

pea22407:


> Just felt I would weigh in on what seems to be a well-hashed out
> matter of opinion.
> 
> I gloated terribly in Book 7.  Because I called it from Book 3 or $
> -whichever one had Petunia mentioning the "greasy-haired boy" 
visiting
> the house.  Oh I was all on top of that and I ranted for years,
> fanatically pulling out one defense after another until I was 
perectly
> manic at the end of Book 6.

Magpie:
I think you can gloat even more. Petunia said "that awful boy" told 
Lily about Dementors. Had she said "greasy-haired boy" it would 
obviously have been Snape (James have greasy hair? Never!). 
But "awful boy" could have applied to James or Snape in Petunia's 
eyes.

-m






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