Non-HBP spoiler, was (SHIP: Oh, my.)

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> :
> There once was  a wizard named Snape
> Who looked like a bat in a cape
> Jo says there's no reference
> In canon to preference
> A reading of Spoilerspace!Snape
> 
> > Nora quoted She-who-shoots-from-the-hip:
> > 
> > > 
> > > "...it's when people devote hours of their time to proving that 
>  Snape is a vampire that I feel it's time to step in, because
> there's  really  nothing in the canon that supports that."
> 
> David: 
> > Golly.  Wow.  I hadn't got that far when I dashed over here.
> > 
> > Naturally one took sides in these debates, but I hadn't expected or 
> > wanted it to end in a hail of bullets like this.
> > 
> > Blood on the floor.  Blood on the floor.
> 
> Pippin:
> Not mine, I assure you. It was fun while it lasted. And she can't
> stop me from thinking he might be part-vampire, you know.
> 
> Pippin


Neri:
For all JKR knows, he could be <eg>.

I mean, surely she didn't research his grandfathers and grandmothers.
And if she did, she didn't research his grand-grand... so how can she
know?

But I think we can be sure that it's important for Snape's character
that he's a half-blood. A bit like Tom, only Tom's mother was at least
Slytherin's last decendent, and Snape didn't even get that much. So
maybe from his PoV, his Slytherin mates and James and Sirius looked
very much the same. 

I've just finished reading the interview, and I think it was by far
the best and most enjoyable JKR interview, probably because it were
two real fans and not some TV big shot who speed-read the books once
before the interview. I was very interested in the part where she
refers to not saying Voldemort's name as a "superstition". This
probably means we shouldn't look for a magical explanation anymore,
which is going to save me some time and work. I must say that I always
treated her answers in the way she refers to them here, as a "don't
waste your time in this direction, there's much more promising game
elsewhere". I hope they ask her about the Longbottoms in the part that
is going to appear in Friday. I realize it is posible for the series
to end without any magical resolution for Neville's parents. In fact
it will be JKR's style in that "magic doesn't make such a big
difference after all", but I just think it would be a big waste of a
good plot. 

And I still maintain that the shipping in HBP was mostly pretty lousy.

Neri