HBP interview

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I'M RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS TO FILL THE SPOILER SPACE

> > The Leaky Cauldron/Mugglenet interview is up. Here's one site:
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> > http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview.shtml
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> > She answers the question, "Is Snape evil?"  
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> > Yes she does! She answers the question.
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Amanda writes:
> Well. It looks like she does, enough to very much discourage me. 
But 
> remember--we are talking about the woman who has made a second 
career 
> out of not answering questions while she seems to, to the point of 
> bemoaning and pointing out when she actually *does.* I think it 
would 
> be very out of character for her to be giving us "Yes"/"No"-value 
> answers at this stage--especially if Snape's allegiance is key to 
> plot in Book 7.
> 

Pip replies:

No, she doesn't. It's a JKR special. 'You've read the book, what do 
you think' is not an answer.

And the other comment that some people will cling to 'a desperate 
hope' is not an answer either. A desperate hope is not the same as a 
false hope. Snape lovers of the world most certainly are desperate 
right now {g}, but she's not saying they're definitely wrong to hope.

> It still, I think, could go either way.

Pip:
Agreed. I have said for years, and will probably continue to say 
until Book 7 comes out, that JKR's expression when people started 
saying in TV interviews how much they liked Snape, and thought he 
was a good guy underneath was *not* 'my gawd, how could you think 
that!'. It's more akin to 'my gawd, my plot is flying out the 
window!' 

This could be a cheese cauldron here, but I still think the 
expression was panic, not incredulity.

Book 7 prediction: Harry's series-long hatred of Snape will be 
important. To Harry. And it will need to be dealt with.

Second prediction: we'll discover that 'Spinner's End' is so 
appallingly stilted because JKR was struggling to give almost every 
sentence an alternative reading - once we've finished book seven. 
She's a Christie fan, and that's an old Christie trick.

Alright, so it could go either way. Perhaps Snape is evil. But if 
so, I'll feel conned. Harry's unreasoning and unrelenting habit of 
blaming Snape for everything turns out to be right?

Mind you, good or evil, he's still a slimy git. I've never said 
Snape was *nice*. {g} Even if I did say he was a good actor two 
books back {ebg}

Pip!Squeak

"Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not 
known how to act?" - Severus Snape