Life Imitates Art on Broadway (and Proves JKR Wrong Again)

[rattlesnakeroot]

Remember when JKR said this one night at Carnegie Hall?

I know Harry would have insisted that Snape's portrait was on that wall, right beside Dumbledore's. [Applause.]
As for whether Harry would go back to talk to him, I think, I'm not sure he would have done.

Well, I think she's partly right. Yes, Harry would have made sure that Snape had a portrait

Comments

[rattlesnakeroot]

The similarity I see is that in the past ten years, Dan Rad never had much of a relationship with Alan Rickman. They acted in scenes together then went their separate ways. But now that Dan is an adult and in some ways following AR's footsteps in the theater, there is so much understanding between them.

I see no reason why Snape/Harry wouldn't have been the same way when they were both adults. Otherwise, why would Harry fight so hard to get Snape a portrait. I think JKR contradicts herself, and contradicts the book.

[drinkingcocoa]

No surprise. I believe JKR's comments about Snape's portrait are about her feelings about herself. She had finished her series and it was a great work and she gave it her all, but did that make her feel she had redeemed herself as a human being? Or did she still feel defined by her abdications and failures? Did she feel that what she achieved through writing this series made her a worthwhile person, or only that she had perhaps managed to repay, hopefully to the penny, the enormous debt she felt she owed the universe? I feel her awkward, alarmed comments about Snape boil down to: "No, no, don't look at me. Look at Harry! Look at other, deserving people! Stop looking at me! Stop asking if I've done the work to forgive myself yet! Rawr! Scratch! Hiss!"

[rattlesnakeroot]

Interesting view! I also think JKR has much in common with Snape.

And you're right that she wants Harry to get all the credit, not Snape.It bugs me in that interview that she says the Headmasters are like royalty and Snape "abdicated" the office. That's ridiculous since no one was as loyal to Hogwarts as Snape, and there's no way he could hide his conversations with Dumbledore from the other portraits, not to mention the fact that he had the hidden Sword of Gryffindor.

[waddiwasiwitch]

Nice little piece. Cute in fact. It's nice that there's still a connection there.
I don't agree either with JKR that Harry wouldn't have gone to see the portrait of Snape. However, I think he would have only gone once or twice to set his own mind at ease.