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julilith

The Minority Report on Our Favorite Prince: SPOILERS SPOILERS and MORE SPOILERS

Jul 22, 2007 18:58

Editted on Monday, 7/23/07 ( Read more... )

harry potter, deathly hallows, severus snape

Comments 13

donchris July 22 2007, 23:30:14 UTC

Blimey! It's a Julie! On LJ!

:D

countrymouse1 July 23 2007, 01:31:02 UTC

Much as I didn't want to hear it, I had to admit that most of what you wrote made very good sense ( ... )

julilith July 23 2007, 02:03:39 UTC

Nancy, please feel free to use quotes, and thanks for reading my opinion even though I know you are decidedly part of the furious-at-Jo camp. :-P ( ... )

countrymouse1 July 23 2007, 02:33:56 UTC

Hi again:

Thanks for friending me, and I've friended you in turn as well. If you go to my LJ, and scroll back a few posts, you'll see a post about why we love Severus (and explaining, for Jo especially, though I know she'll never see it) what it is about him that makes us hope for redemption and a second chance for him. I hate to say it, but I still think she just didn't particularly like that character she'd created, but she maintained him as a necessary evil to bring about her plot, and was mystified to the end as to why we are all so obsessed with him, or why his fate would affect us so deeply.

Thanks for your thoughts, and for friending me! :-)
Countrymouse

eeyore9990 July 23 2007, 18:42:45 UTC

I don't know. Snape seems to have a second sense of when Harry is about with his cloak on. Like when he and McGonagall faced off in the castle, and he was watching the air around her, I think he knew Harry was there. I just can't imagine why JKR would go to such lengths to show Snape always knowing when Harry is hiding (third year, on the trick step, for example) for that to have no meaning at the end.

aerinha23 July 23 2007, 02:30:06 UTC

You know, you could put an LJ-cut on this and not have to write spoilers 900 times. Like so:

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Linked by countrymouse vanityfair00 July 23 2007, 06:03:00 UTC

Excellent essay. And would Harry had believed Snape if he had found him and told him? I think he would have let his prejudices and anger overcome his good sense in that scenario. Snape almost has to die in order for Harry to believe him.

channingcheetah July 23 2007, 16:18:41 UTC

Very interesting post, which I found through Countrymouse's link. It spells out in greater detail something I mentioned in Countrymouse's comments section while trying to understand why Snape "died" and in this way. It's hard to know something logically (like why Snape ended as he did) and feel something very different (there were NO other options for Snape?).

I think there are alternatives to Snape's having to die for Harry to believe him. They have already shown that Harry can access Snape's mind through Legilimens, if Snape allows it, to experience the truth of something Harry may not have believed if Snape had just said it. Or Snape could have stored his memories in a globe like a prophecy meant only for Harry. Or some other magical, wizarding thing. If the whole idea of the Hallows can be revealed in the final book, certainly other strong magic could also be revealed, magic that preserves Snape as well as his memories.

Would you mind if I friended you?

Cheers,
Erin (Professor Channing Cheetah)