Well, I really liked it. You brought up some really good points and perspectives. Agree, Harry is a celebrity, but only because his parents did something quite notable. So he's more like a celebrity-spawn, contrasted with a fairy tale or Christ figure. I also agree that Snape's personal sacrifice is ignored by Jo and she kills him on the floor just to make sure we get her drift. Even Harry leaves the Shrieking Shack without a backwards glance. Criminy.....!
One of the key reasons why I never went for the Snape-loved-Lily prediction angle was that I couldn't believe that Voldemort would go into the dating service business and spare her life for a minon. Since when do evil heartless villans care enough to make their henchmen happy? And if Snape truly, madly, and deeply *loved* Miss Evans, he wouldn't have immersed himself in the worst of Slytherin which was in direct opposition to her beliefs. So one of my key objections to the series resolution is that it simply flies in the face of logic.
As a redemption moment, I'd rather wish that Snape appeared in the forest to help escort Harry to his non-doom and spend a second with Lily. But I find the whole book a canon muddle-puddle. All in all, the careful HP readers were a bit wiser than Jo herself...excepting those poo tossing "lol" trolls I stumbled upon last week.
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Date: 2007-10-02 08:43 pm (UTC)One of the key reasons why I never went for the Snape-loved-Lily prediction angle was that I couldn't believe that Voldemort would go into the dating service business and spare her life for a minon. Since when do evil heartless villans care enough to make their henchmen happy? And if Snape truly, madly, and deeply *loved* Miss Evans, he wouldn't have immersed himself in the worst of Slytherin which was in direct opposition to her beliefs. So one of my key objections to the series resolution is that it simply flies in the face of logic.
As a redemption moment, I'd rather wish that Snape appeared in the forest to help escort Harry to his non-doom and spend a second with Lily. But I find the whole book a canon muddle-puddle. All in all, the careful HP readers were a bit wiser than Jo herself...excepting those poo tossing "lol" trolls I stumbled upon last week.