The Bad Guy[tm]/footnote to a rant..

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, sean dwyer <ewe2 at a...> wrote:
> <rant>
> 
> The main list is getting bizarre these days: what to make of the
> pro-Snape/anti-Snape lobbies marshalling JKR into their arguments? 
It's
> turning into a referendum on whether JKR condones abuse, and 
there's a
> borderline tendency to insist that she doesn't understand her own 
characters.
> 

Carolyn:
The fascination of Snape is certainly nothing new on HPfGU. 
Currently, the catalogue group has coded up 30 000 posts (including 
the old Yahoo Group), and Harry and Snape are virtually neck-and-neck 
in citations, no other character even comes close. My money is on 
Snape winning hands down by the time we have gone very much further.

Perhaps one reason is that we are all adults on these boards, and 
react most strongly to a complex adult character; there are precious 
few of them to feed on in the series, after all.

But certainly, for some reason, the books have become a lightening 
rod conductor for debate on many RL issues. Perhaps she will tell us 
after it's all over whether she had any intention of sparking such 
controversy - I somehow doubt it, though she may be enjoying it, 
nevertheless.