The Bad Guy[tm]

[pippin_999]

--- 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.<

Speaking as one of the participants,  it's a canon-based list, you 
know. If we don't cite JKR or her works in our arguments, fire will 
rain from MEGdom (the list-elves' list) and howlers will fly. There 
has been an effort to move the general referendum on abuse to 
OT-Chatter where it belongs.


> 
> Putting JKR aside for a moment, let's be clear about it: The 
Bad Guy[tm] is alegitimate tool to drive plots. These days, it's the 
only way to differentiate The Good Guy[tm] on TV and movies. 
Snape is the fallback Bad Guy, otherwise Voldemort would be 
way overused. So he's smart and bitter and twisted. <

JKR is now on record as saying that Sirius shouldn't have 
treated Snape as if he didn't have any latent good qualities. So 
some of us expect to be shown that Snape will respond better if 
Harry stops treating him as The Bad Guy[tm].That's what the 
debate is about, IMO.

Pippin