They Knew Snape Was Heroic All The Time ~ Yeah, Right

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Hindsight is really 20-20.
That goes for Fandom as well. Where Snape is concerned, I've been expecting it for years, but somehow people who always thought Snape was evil slithered out of admitting it.
Now that the final movies are being made, however, it seems that even the big-wigs are getting on the Snape Train all of a sudden. And I guess they

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Sort of as an aside on the writing:

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Kloves comes across as such an arrogant ass. 'Yeah, I knew Snape was important Hero all along that is why I left 75% of his scenes out of ALL the films.' Yeah, that must be is why Alan Rickman was rumored to almost quit the series because Snape was getting SOOOOOO much in depth attention in the films that Rickman was just overwhelmed with work and the sheer gravity the films were putting into this character. * end sarcasm *

My aside: I have watched that first (only) scene in DH with Snape over and over and over again and have a couple thoughts about the dialogue.

"Severus, I was beginning to think you had lost your way, we saved you a seat."
"You bring news, I trust"

Voldemort's lines feel odd to me. Besides the overly-friendly passive tone he addressed Snape, I realized that there actually is a lot of um, irony(?) being used here.

"Lost your way" is such a cliché. It is usually used in as a euphemism to refer to a larger moral or philosophical crises, not just someone getting delayed. We are supposed to think that Voldemort trusts Snap. So this is just Kloves attempting to mislead the audience, hinting - Severus has gone to the bad side, he's "lost his way" get it? Oh so subtle.

Then of course the next sentence could be written a couple ways. "You bring news, I trust" i.e. I know you've got something important to share, or "You bring news (that) I trust" i.e. Snape in bringing trustworthy information, which of course we know isn't exactly that.

Re: Sort of as an aside on the writing:

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Nice analysis of the double meanings, espcially that last line!

I took Voldemort as a little threatening there, too, pointing out that everyone else was on time while Snape was tardy and maybe dragging his feet. Of course, Snape probably was hesitant to walk in there, and then he sees poor Charity hanging over the table when he walks into the room.