The dissonance is cognitive dissonance. Snape fans may have wanted a a great romantic hero, but that wasn't the complex character that Rowling wrote. He was never intended to be a great romantic hero; that was never his role. So the dissonance is entirely in the eyes of Snape fans.
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Date: 2008-03-27 10:16 am (UTC)