And is her comment that Snape is in some ways more culpable than Voldemort just feeding the Snape is evil fires as an act of misdirection? Or is it a straightforward answer?
I think it's a more straightforward answer and, perpahs - hopefully, confirmation that we'll get more of his background in book seven. Saying that Snape has the capacity to know better and didn't but, to me, gives him more capacity for redemption rather than more evidence that he's truly evil.
And in the meantime, where oh where is the new Snape/Harry fic?
1. I'm afraid so. As much as I'd like to believe in the "he did it on orders," JKR's interviews are making it clear that he was a Death Eater all along.
I don't know if it's, perhaps, my own prejudices but I'm not reading that in JKR's interviews. He is culpable for his past actions but he also has choices and isn't that was part of HBP was about? I also see too many instances when he could have delivered Harry right to Voldemort but didn't.
I'm also thinking back to the "deeply horrible person" and "who'd want Snape to love them?" comments of a couple of years ago. Taken together with JKR's clear surprise that anyone would like Snape, let alone that he'd become one of the most popular characters in the books, and it's not a hopeful picture.
THAT makes me wonder what the hell Dumbledore was thinking. He KNEW the position was cursed. Why give it to Snape at such a critical time? The only thing I can think is that it was a one-year appointment and he expected Snape to go back to Potions afterwards.
And is her comment that Snape is in some ways more culpable than Voldemort just feeding the Snape is evil fires as an act of misdirection? Or is it a straightforward answer?
I see what you're asking here, but when I read the answer what jumped out at me was that she was saying Snape was more culpable because someone had loved him, not because Snape himself has the capacity to love. That was just strange.
Not too strange. Someone loved Snape, and there was a bond there, that someone had put their love and trust in him. Tom Riddle was never loved and thus broke no bonds of love. So in a sense, Snape's crime is worse (whenever and whatever it was) for the offense done against someone who loved him.
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I think it's a more straightforward answer and, perpahs - hopefully, confirmation that we'll get more of his background in book seven. Saying that Snape has the capacity to know better and didn't but, to me, gives him more capacity for redemption rather than more evidence that he's truly evil.
And in the meantime, where oh where is the new Snape/Harry fic?
I'm refreshing like a madwoman.
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2. Check out snape_potter and femmequixotic.
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I doubt JKR would have given a satisfactory answer if she had been asked, but I'd still like to see that answer.
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I see what you're asking here, but when I read the answer what jumped out at me was that she was saying Snape was more culpable because someone had loved him, not because Snape himself has the capacity to love. That was just strange.
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