Title of Book 7 Harry Potter* SPOILERS*
POSTED BY: msg
UPDATED: Saturday, January 13, 2007 09:09
VIEWED: 4371
PAGE 3 of 3
(and yes, I'm saying those who say Snape is evil haven't read the books)
I just have to say - that was so very insulting that I didn't even bother to read further.I've read the books at least 5 times and am entitled to my own opinion about Snape without being told I've never read them closely enough.
Bryce
***********************************
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I would say it's been copy and pasted several times. That bit, I think, came from some board with, shall we say, more abrasive posters. Doesn't really belong there, but I actually had forgotten it was there in the first place. Apologies.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
No problem then, and certainly no hard feelings ! Happy holidays ! 
Bryce
*******************************
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I don't think Snape is truly evil though I think he would certainly struggles with his evil side... I believe there is a rage in him about his sense of morality - the juxtaposition is that Snape's early history was one of blind loyalty partly due to his anger at having been a half wizard in the first place and his anger at his father who was a muggle and didn't treat his mother well... then he sees someone like Harry's father who has the inate sense of cruelty that many teenagers have (please note tenns reading this, I said many... if you've ever been on the receiving end of their cruelty I think you'll agree) and to top it off the woman he adores, Lily Evans, pities him and ends up shunning him when he rejects her pity. This is almost the opposite of him as people still adore the Potters and keep mentioning what wonderful people they were - they were not evil, they were good and they gave their lives fighting Voldemort.
I wonder if Snape tried to save Lily (and James) when he found out Voldemort was going to kill them himself... I wonder if he did something to prove himself to Dumbldore and in so achieving that task Dumbledore hesitated to believe him when he came with the intelligence of what was about to happen (after all D believed that Sirius was the Potters secret keeper and he trusted him implicitly) so he set a task, and by the time the task was done and Snapes loyalty proven it was too late... but Harry survived... and Snape had to be reminded every time he saw Harry that he had taken his time to attempt to save the woman he loved...
Wow - this thread has an interesting effect on me!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I can put one foot in front of the other - I'm Magdalena, & I'm marching with the 76th" http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I would hope that Rowling is a deep enough writer that she gives Snape a reason for being perceivably evil. She's already got at least 2 purely bad characters (Voldemort and Lucius Malfoy). Snape is a subtle enough character that he needs a reason to do what he did (more than the raging jealousy we've been seeing over and over again).
I have to ask, though.... Deathly Hallows?!? WTF is a Deathly Hallow?
It's pretty obvious who RAB is, and I suspect that there will be either more on Sirius' background and family or perhaps Sirius himself will return, as he is the only character who gets killed off that we don't actually see die.
Man it takes a silly girl to lie about the dreams she has.
Lord it takes a lonely one to wish that she had never dreamed at all.
--Dashboard Confessional
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
She's never dropped plot points before, I find it unlikely she'd start with the biggest questions readers have. But it could be a red herring.
What exactly do you mean by this? Do you mean that the books have no predictablility, or do you mean that she's never left things out that were hinted at in previous books?
If you mean the former, than you are gravely mistaken. Many of the directions that she's taken have been easily predicted (such as relationships and which main characters will die). It all just takes careful reading.
I'll admit, there are a few things I didn't find myself, but right before book 5 came out, I had a conversation about the direction of the rest of the series (which means after book 4)with my high school lit teacher. She predicted most of what would happen relationship-wise (Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, ect.) and also said Sirius, Dumbledore and Harry would end up dying by the end of the series.
She even backed up her reasons for why she thought that way. With the relationships, she cited the fact that Ron was absolutely obsessed with finding out how Hermione was getting to all her classes in book three (she added other examples as well, but I don't remember them). With Ginny/Harry, she said that Ginny would get over her crush and go to other guys and Harry would get jealous because he didn't have all her attention (I thought that was really weak, but hey, she seems to be right). For Sirius and Dumbledore, she said that Harry was an archetypual Orphan and that for it to conceptually work, all of his father figures would have to be taken out of the picture (yeah, I didn't get that one either, but once again, it worked out). Lastly, she said that Harry would have to die because of the way the scar bound him to Voldemort. She said that as long as the scar existed, Voldemort would never be able to truly die (remember, this is before we found out about the prophesy and horcruxes, but I think her reasoning is spot on once again).
And as for the person that said "why does she have to kill someone in every book since 4?" The answer is that Voldemort is back now. In the descriptions of the time when Voldemort dominated before, death and mayhem ensued. Voldemort is back and is recreating the last time when he had power. Expect death and dark times while Voldemort is alive. Another answer is that book 4 is when the true "war" against Voldemort started and we should expect casualties like in any war.
I'm a leaf on the wind
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME