Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[Librasmile]

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> Bookcrazzzy:
>
> I am neither a hater nor a lover of Severus Snape or Sirius Black,
> seeing them both as human beings with strengths and weaknesses who
> have suffered great losses in their lives.  I find it frustrating
> when the lovers and haters make statements that are *completely
> unsupportable by canon* and word them *as though they are fact and
> anyone who disagrees is irrational*. Would it be possible for people
> to support statements with canon when possible and separate those
> kinds of statements from the ones that are purely opinion?  It really
> is possible to discuss Harry Potter without insulting people, whether
> or not it is done with a "smile".
>

Librasmile:
The smile is simply an attempt to be diplomatic. But one would think that logic or common sense would also have some role to play. Instead, what I'm seeing is folks continually proposing an argument that's being bent out of all kinds of realistic shape to support a conclusion that's been made without evidence. I keep seeing anti-Snape folks do backflips to preclude ANY possibility of him having any kind of positive trait at all. Which certainly isn't my idea of a discussion. I've been quite open in my bias but I'm not seeing the same thing. Not with everyone and no one's been insulting per se (including myself). But I can now see why I lurked for so long. There's very little that's new being created here. There are no new insights rather just constantly unproductive batting back and forth.