Well, well, well.

[rj_anderson]

So I guess this latest answer on JKR's official FAQ to the question of how the Order members communicate (and can anybody explain to me how on earth we would have figured that out from reading GoF, the way Jo thinks we all should have???) would strongly suggest that Snape does, in fact, have a Patronus. (Ironic, since cesario suggested last night that it

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[tybalt_quin]

My bet is that this will all have something to do with the Draught of Living Death or Snape's speech about stoppering death from PS. I also think that the whole thing will be a set up aimed at making Snape seem extra evil.

[rj_anderson]

Yep, and half of Snape fandom will go "Yay, he's evil!" and half of the remaining half will go "Wah, he's evil!" while the remnant will staunchly insist that he's not evil, and be branded as "in denial" by the rest of the fandom, akin to those who keep claiming that Sirius is not really dead. :)

[rj_anderson]

Oh, me too. Except I don't call it denial, myself: I think it a perfectly sound response to everything JKR has done with Snape's character so far, and the way she's continually hammered home the way that appearances are deceiving and that Harry's perspective (however much we may empathize with him) is frequently skewed and distorted by his lack of knowledge/understanding of what's really going on.

Saying Sirius isn't dead when all the other characters in OotP made perfectly plain that he is, on the other hand -- that's denial. :)

[mistraltoes]

OTOH, Obi-Wan told Luke that his father was dead... and, NOT AT ALL being a fan of Sirius, I still question whether he's irreversibly dead. Otherwise, the 'beyond the veil' thing is overly cutesy, IMO. There's no good reason to have it in there other than to set up some ambiguity.

Snape... my concerns about Snape are simply that he may not be as central to the story as we Snape fans would like to think. It's Harry's story, after all. Though I'd love to be wrong. :)

[katsaris]

Sure there's a good reason -- to be able to show *Harry* in denial.