[icon] Trust Snape

[parelle]

From this shirt , an icon with font selection, for puellacaerulea Because I was bored with studying and wanted to play with pretty fonts.  As for what I think, I'm not convinced either way on the subject.

Please credit bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com (because I didn't think of the idea myself)

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Comments

Skeptical

[rantipole6]

Heh heh. Yeah, Snape's going to have to come up with a serious explanation in book 7. Nice icons.

[yechezkiel]

Basically--either Snape is trustworthy, or the moral universe of the books collapses like a house of cards. If Snape turns out to have been a traitor, I will not only be surprised, but J.K. Rowling will lose what esteem she has in my eyes.

[puellacaerulea]

while I'm obviously very firmly in the 'trust snape' camp, I think it's interesting that you think his being trustworthy is necessary to the books' whole moral structure. as for me, I always saw the whole book's moral universe as being irritatingly black/white, good/evil, etc. that's what makes snape so interesting and worthwhile -- he's really the only character who blurs those distinctions. hence my surprise; I would have thought snape's ultimately being a traitor would have fit more neatly with the books' moral universe as I see it. I'm not going to hope for it, but it would make me *so* happy to see snape go all heroic and stuff in the end (he's probably going to die saving mr. teen angst anyway) just to make some broad "it's not all black and white, stupid" point.

[yechezkiel]

For the people interested in Harry Potter who haven't read book six (and I am sure there are some--I didn't read book five until shortly before six was released), spoiler alert.

I really enjoy and (when readers don't recognize it) am really annoyed by one thing in J.K. Rowling--her complete lack of originality. Dumbledore is nothing more than T.H. White's rendition of Merlin redone for a far less tendentious series. The "wise old man" is a fantasy archetype, and he often serves as the story's moral center; Dumbledore does this for the Potter novels in the way Merlin does in The Once and Future King and in the way Gandalf does in The Lord of the Rings. Part of Dumbledore's moral message has been a consistent tempering of the "them-and-us" (as opposed to "black-and-white", more on this later) view of Harry and company. A big part of this has been Dumbledore's undying faith in Snape's rehabilitation.

As Snape is the only Death Eater we know of to have truly recanted, he is the only candidate for testing the moral universe that has

[yechezkiel]

Btw, I believe that Star Wars would have been ruined if Yoda was right. The funny thing about the original trilogy is that the "Wise Old Man" Yoda is wrong about nearly everything, and only Obi-Wan of the two remaining Jedi sees that the entire basis of the Jedi order may have been wrong.

(The interesting thing about the prequel trilogy is that--lost in the inconsistencies and clunky writing and boring FX extravaganzas--something of that moral message remains if you want to read it into the films, even if they do portray the Jedi as mostly heroic.)

[puellacaerulea]

right, and probably yoinking no. 6.

[ardenta]

ooOO.. I think 002 is my favorite!

[sparowe]

Not taking, but I like 001. Also greatly enjoyed the commentary in here! :)