NBC Today Show questions

[fritter_my_wig]

Serena:
> If it's any consolation, I'm horribly worried about
> the outcome for Snape - in fact I'm seriously
> contemplating not reading book 7 at all!!
> I really, really hope JKR doesn't suddenly reveal him
> as the evil **** that many see him as - I think I'd
> rather he died gloriously as a hero than that.

Eloise:
I'm afraid she won't let him do that, either. Die, quite probably. 
Gloriously? No. <sigh>

I keep playing with the titbits she's given us. In Book 7, we'll find 
out why it's such a 'horrible' idea to have Snape in love with you.

Now is that because of a personal attribute or an action? Something 
he does during Bk 7, or something revealed from his past? 

I had a silly inspiration this morning when dismissing as 
inappropriate the possibility that he'd be revealed to be suffering 
from some kind of wizarding STD.

Mrs Norris. There you are. Kiss Severus Snape and you turn into a cat.
In fact we can combine this with the reluctance to discuss which 
teachers are married.  Snape marries, but at the moment of 
consummation....*miaow*. And of course she can't be called Mrs Snape, 
because that would give the game away.

Another fear is that he *will* turn out to be a vampire because that 
question she answered, apparently dismissing the idea left a loophole.
Does he have any *link* with vampires? Well, no, he may not have any 
links with any other vampires whatsoever, whilst still being one 
himself.

Anyway, it's difficult to get away from the conclusion that she has a 
real bombshell of some description to drop.

~Eloise