[HPforGrownups] CHAPDISC: DH32, The Elder Wand

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No: HPFGUIDX 184765

 Zara:
 3) What was your reaction to Snape's death on your first reading of it? Did
 the following chapter change your view? Does it affect you differently on
 rereading?

Shelley:
I am going to sound like the most evil person on the face of the earth with 
my answer. I have never been a fan of Snape, I loathed the man before he 
killed Dumbledore, and hated him even more following that event. My 
prediction for the last book is that I wanted to see Snape die. I was 
looking forward to it even. I wanted Snape to be taken down. But, when I 
read that part, Nagini taking him and Snape just standing there like a 
spineless wimp, a pitifully sorry man, I was angry. I wanted a death that 
was worthy of the villain Snape was, not some pitifully, wimpy snake bite 
that he didn't even try to defend himself from. I just wanted something 
"Grand" from Snape as he died, and I didn't get it.

Does that color my rereading? Sure it does. That, and a bunch of other 
things that I felt were "ended poorly" in that last book, so much so that 
with the other books, I couldn't wait to reread them, and have reread them 
over and over, but with DH, it's like "yeah, whatever. If I reread it, I do, 
if I don't get to it, so what." I almost prefer to reread the whole series 
MINUS book 7. I feel it's that much of a disappointment for me. No, the next 
chapter didn't redeem that wimpy ending of Snape- I was much too 
disappointed at that point that nothing else Rowling did for the ending 
could have made me change my mind.

Shelley