Snape's Muggleness
(Yes, Muggleness, instead of "Mugglenet" on which the March Madness Game has now dwindled down to "Cheatin' 50-constant-points-ahead Hermione" versus "Harry-who-may-not-have-a-chance-against-the-Hermione-Fan-Juggernaut." I love the whining going on in the comments on Mugglenet about how it isn't fair if Harry wins because Hermione never wins
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Well, that and personal stuff, like a slowly dying ex-husband I'm visiting once a month.
Snape is one of the more complex characters in modern literature. It's rare to find a character who is cast so negatively, who has such an apparently secondary role in a series, who then bursts explosively onto the scene in the last book as -- surprise! -- not only a Major Character, but one who has been a major driver behind most of the action in the entire series! Not to mention one whose true role has been skillfully hinted at all through the series ( ... )
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All of us are going through things every day - life is hard right now. Maybe that's why these trivialities in Fandom get on my nerves so much. The basic facts of the books ought to be givens, not up for debate. People like to throw down the gauntlet and mock us over something that isn't even in the book.
It just shocks me that someone always comes up with a new theory that's the opposite of the book, and then they are backed up by people who have been in fandom for years and ought to know better. It's nonsensical. They just can't let it go.
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Lily loved them because she could see through their tough exterior.
She didn't love Snape because she could see his future.
Of course neither Petunia nor James ever said or did anything to provoke Snape at all. He merely had a hair trigger and lashed out at people.
Petunia and James are sadly misunderstood characters, and Snape was just a punk who never did anything for anybody!
And that describes the way some fans think.
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Some people over at that other forum tend to over-think some things. Of course JKR didn't help with revising the Fidelius Charm in every book--that's the current topic that has me pulling out my hair along with Dumbledore's so-called 'ancient magic'. Avoiding those threads for awhile.
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On the other hand, as I wrote to Matts below, Petunia and Snape took on the burden of Harry out of love for Lily. They didn't really change from childhood, but Lily did and left them behind. So in some ways, I do feel sorry for Petunia, not because she was ever a good person, but because Lily dismissed her as unimportant. Funny how Petunia - and Snape as well - became extremely important the minute Lily and James were dead.
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What is also similar about Petunia and Snape is that Lily left them both behind. In Lily's letter to Sirius, she mentions a gift that Petunia had sent her for Christmas that was broken but that she didn't care anyway. And by then, Snape was apparently out of her thoughts completely. She changed, but Petunia and Snape didn't.
Sirius is the one who should have been raising Harry and cleaning up the mess his brilliant "plan" left behind, but he was arrested and never bothered telling anyone that Peter was an animagus. *eyeroll*
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Wrong + Wrong = Just Plain Wrong.
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