HBP interview

[potioncat]

> > Amandageist:
> > 
> > And also a headmaster wise
> > 
> > Who let all that meanness disguise
> > 
> > The potion-man's task--
> > 
> > Quite handy, to mask
> > 
> > The truth behind their enterprise.
> > 
> > And 
> 
> > It still, I think, could go either way.
> 
> Oui!

Potioncat:
Well, I said she answered it. I never said her answer would be to our 
satisfaction. Actually, as I read the book it was so clearly obvious 
that Snape was on DD's side the entire time, that I was afraid that 
was proof he wasn't. So having so many posters reading it so clearly 
the other way is encouragement to me.


Nora: 
> There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape
> 
> JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't 
> because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, 
> can I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said 
that 
> and you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's 
all 
> I'm going to say.
> 
> 'Slightly stunned' as in 'oh you guessed it', or 'slightly stunned' 
> as in 'not in a million years, baby'.  No clue.
> 
> -Nora notes she found that so fast as it's also got the "Who would 
> want Snape in love with them" quote so essential to an earlier post

Potioncat:
As I recall...and I don't always recall... the argument has often 
flowed around whether JKR was answering a question about love or 
responding to the Interviewer's interruption about redemption. I tend 
to think she had stepped back to the original question about love.

KathyW