The erroneous assumptions are on both sides. Since your very first post you have been making assumptions about our expectations for DH which are probably based on other Snapefan's opinions you've seen elsewhere. Some of the examples you've given irritate me as much as they irritate you, so you're barking at the wrong tree. Snape as a character in DH did not disappoint me; I love him as much as I always did, perhaps even a bit more. I don't like the way he was treated, but that's a completely different matter. My expectations, and afaik Mary agrees, were for a 'highly moral book' based on commonly accepted 'Christian values' . And I expected Lily Evans and James Potter to justify the praise they were given in previous books and interviews and call me a hopeless optimist, I expected Harry to grow up. I don't think that was asking too much. This was the original question from WhySnape forum on which Mary ellaborated: 'Does anybody understand the phenomenon that a "normal",adult,female human being,provided with a partner,friends and a profession ,gets so much impressed,beguiled,bewitched by a FICTIONAL character?' I know a good number of people who still passionately love Snape and like the last book; OTOH there are many people who never liked him and think the book's a complete failure. One has nothing to do with the other.
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Date: 2008-03-31 12:35 pm (UTC)My expectations, and afaik Mary agrees, were for a 'highly moral book' based on commonly accepted 'Christian values' . And I expected Lily Evans and James Potter to justify the praise they were given in previous books and interviews and call me a hopeless optimist, I expected Harry to grow up. I don't think that was asking too much.
This was the original question from WhySnape forum on which Mary ellaborated: 'Does anybody understand the phenomenon that a "normal",adult,female human being,provided with a partner,friends and a profession ,gets so much impressed,beguiled,bewitched by a FICTIONAL character?'
I know a good number of people who still passionately love Snape and like the last book; OTOH there are many people who never liked him and think the book's a complete failure. One has nothing to do with the other.