[ SECRET POST #2929 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2929 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I was a major Snape fan all the way from Book 1 through Book 6, but I agree. The revelation that his motivation was love for Lily took a huge and immediate chunk out of his complexity for me. Suddenly it's not about realisations of right or wrong, or loyalty to Dumbledore, or an extremely embittered and petty man trying to do the right thing after being shocked out of his teenage rage. Suddenly, it's about a goddamn teenage crush that becomes a lifelong penance because the stupid git accidentally got her killed when said teenage rage made him support the person who murdered her.

I mean, it's just not as impressive. "I got my would-be-girlfriend killed and switched sides out of personal guilt" doesn't have quite the same gravitas as "I'm an extremely bitter git who nonetheless got uneasy with hanging around a mass-murderer, so I switched to the side of people I still mostly hate but who don't go around killing people".

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same here.

I really loved Snape before that revelation, because he was so REAL. He's basically the wizarding equivalent of a reformed skinhead. A poor kid with a shitty homelife who gets caught up in a gang, gets the gang tat and the 'family' and does increasingly awful shit, and then later realizes what a massive fuck-up he is.

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Yessssssssss

[(Anonymous)]

I had a fondness for Snape the misanthrope too.

[(Anonymous)]

This. It's much less interesting than it actually being about his opinions and morals changing, or an internally motivated penance, or the general Nice /=/ Good stuff. It's so much more limiting and trite.

(It also feels incredibly unconvincing to me, but I found pretty much all the romantic relationships in the series unconvincing and tacked on and very arrested adolescent, to the point I mostly thought JKR just doesn't want to write romance but feels obligated because teenagers or something. It always amazed me that ship wars were so intense over a text where I felt there was so little actual convincing romantic or sexual tension between just about anyone.)