Reactions (was Re: Did you LIKE Snape?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183218

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I think you have Bildungsroman, essentially, a story
> of growing up, confused with the hero's journey


zanooda:

Hehe, doesn't matter, I didn't know anything about the hero's journey
either :-)! The point is, as I found out, some readers expected DD to
die, but I so didn't :-)! That's why his death came as a shock.


> Carol responds:

> I cried for Fred and Percy and George, the dead brother and the 
> bereaved survivors.


zanooda:

You know, we should have known that Fred was a goner, when he started
talking about his future wedding in "The Wedding" ... ;-(.


> Carol:

> What, not Severus?


zanooda:

This is a separate story :-). I was disappointed and angry that he had
to die at all, you know. I am one of those who think that Snape should
have stayed alive, or, at least, that he should have died *after*
Harry found out the truth about him. It's not because I like him, but
because I believe this would be so much more interesting. There was a
thread about this recently, and, even if I admit that the deathbed
confession was an adequate way to give Harry the needed information, I
still think that Snape dying was an easy way out for Harry, for Snape,
and even for JKR. 

I wanted Harry to understand that he was wrong about Snape while Snape
was still alive and learn to work together with him against LV. I
wanted Snape to understand and admit that Harry was not another James
while he (Snape) was still alive. I wanted JKR to think of some way to
make it all happen :-). Alas, we can't always get what we want ;-(. I
expected Snape to help Harry much more in DH. I thought someone
unknown would help again and again, and Harry would wonder who that
mysterious ally was, etc. Yeah, right :-)! It turned out Snape didn't
even know about the Horcruxes, so he couldn't help Harry much. Ah,
well ...

As for Snape's death scene itself - well, it was gruesome and scary,
but, as I said, more than anything I was disappointed how pointless
this death was. I was sure by this time that Snape would die, but not
this way! I would like something more satisfying (and by this I mean
something more heroic :-)). It was really lucky that Harry was there
to get the memories, otherwise this horrible death would be for nothing.