Snape Snape Snape WAS: Re: Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST
dumbledore11214
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Sat May 9 02:50:35 UTC 2009
No: HPFGUIDX 186512
Alla:
And it was always in my mind as possibility which I hoped will not come true.
Montavilla47:
<SNIP>
I hear you. I was hoping that Harry wouldn't turn into Christ.
We all have our disappointments.<SNIP>
Alla:
I know I said it in post DH past and probably more than once, but I still want to make this correction again. I **thought** that Snape working for good side will be a disappointment for me, but that was before book came out.
It is of course up to you whether to take my word for it or not, but believe me, while I did not get the plot development that I hoped for, I was extremely satisfied with the development JKR chose for Snape.
JKR gave me Snape whom I can continue hate in good faith, if that makes sense, while acknowledging his heroic deeds lol.
JKR could have drawn Snape to be a very different animal, somebody whom I would be forced to stop hating and acknowledge what I would perceive as a very different character. For example, she could have done a Snape, who changed his mind not because Lily died, but really just because he figured out that Voldemort's plans for the humanity are very very bad plans indeed. Oh I know he grows to value life, but that is so totally not what I have in mind.
Most importantly JKR could have done the final confrontation between Harry and Snape, because really not only many Snape fans that I know wanted this confrontation, some of the Snape haters (me) really wanted this confrontation as well, heh. Only I was hoping for Harry for once being in power and Snape (evil or for himself) being humiliated and with no power whatsoever.
Was I disappointed that I did not get this confrontation? Since Snape turned out to be Dumbledore!Man, of course I was not disappointed! Because you see, what JKR could have also done is to make this confrontation to go the way so many Snape fans wanted. You know, Snape do the gloating, etc, tell Harry that I never hated you Potter, etc, etc, I do not care much for you one way or another.
But she did not do that, she made Snape die and Harry granting his forgiveness, believe me, I was very happy with this development since she chose to do DD! Snape. Boy I would never imagine that Dumbledore!man Snape would made me happy.
But yes, Snape's admission that he never hated Harry would have been a major bomb for me, heh. Instead she places what I feel more support in DH that yes, Snape did hate Harry in my view.
And of course dying in Shrieking Shack from Nagini's bite, I cannot think of anything more fitting for him, for somebody who (in my view) would never forgive James saving his life. Well, as far as I am concerned Severus dear got his wish.
Oh, and of course she could leave him alive and made the possibility come true that future generations of Hogwarts kids will have him as a teacher or Headmaster (shudders).
Montavilla47:
It sounds like that was a deal-breaker for you. It wasn't
ever a deal-breaker for me. But then, it wasn't something
that struck me as particularly brutal. That's just me.
<SNIP>
Alla:
You mean how Snape treated Harry was a deal breaker for me? Oh absolutely and most definitely it was.
Montavilla47:
<SNIP>
I think that's what JKR was going for with Snape and
Harry (sans the romance). Neither of them changed
their character, but Harry did come to understand Snape--
and I think that JKR wanted her readers to make that
same journey.
However, some of us just aren't going to down that
path and some of us had walked down it so many times
before DH came out that we sitting there, tapping our
feet, and waiting for Harry to catch up.
Alla:
And some of us walked that path, saw where that path leads and came back heh.
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