A Simpler Scenario

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:

> Anne:
>
> Ah, but on the other hand, I have seen people worry about the message
> it would send to kids if the message about trust and second chances
> were undermined if Dumbledore's trust in Snape turned out to be 
> misplaced.

Or take out the 'message it would send to kids' and plug in a 'what 
would it do to the thematic structure of the books', and you get a just-
as-common more adult-oriented response.  I've seen statements to the 
effect of "If JKR makes Snape evil then she's completely betraying the 
logic of her books, and they will suck" more times than I can shake a 
stick at.  Hmm, saw that one with another parameter this time around, 
too...

-Nora thinks evaluations of that sort are much easier to argue for in 
retrospect