Well, I thought she MIGHT pull Evil!Snape, but only because everyone was expecting the opposite. XD It was SO OBVIOUS he was good - the theories didn't even have to have THAT many textual examples! - that he couldn't POSSIBLY be good. It was one of JKR's famous red herrings. *facepalm* I think her subtlety went out the window after GoF. Moody-Crouch was the last WTF utterly-unpredictable-yet-clear-in-retrospect surprise of the series, and the only surprise in OOTP was that Harry was TEH CHOSEN WUN, and I remember that even as a 12-year-old or so, my first instinct after having gone through all those pages of PMS and ugliness to have THAT as a payoff was to consider throwing the book through the window and swear that I wouldn't buy another book from JKR if the next one wasn't better. Well, I found HBP more tolerable than OOTP, mostly because the ugliness wasn't as brutally obvious. As a kid, I found it impossible to deal with the blatant horror of OOTP - James was evil? Snape was a victim? (I read PoA a LONG time after GoF - forgive me, I was a kid, and the HP hype hadn't started up yet -, and I might not even have read it by the time OOTP showed up. Hence why I didn't remember the Werewolf Incident.) Why is everyone acting so HORRIBLE? Sirius got Kissed? (Yes, my mind somehow had Sirius getting Kissed by a swarm of Dementors that had gathered around the Hogwarts lake. I think my mind fused PoA with OOTP to produce that image. I still find it more logical and emotionally powerful than Death by Drapery.) We have a Generic Chosen One Prophecy? Harry's a nasty little snot? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LOVABLE CHARACTERS?
...I now realize that the Harry Potter series that reappeared after the three-year-summer was a far uglier one than the one that had gone on vacation, and that perhaps it would have been better to remember the characters as they were. Oh well. We got Dumbledore backstory, Luna Lovegood, Neville's character arc, and Snape's backstory. Those were valuable things. I'm certain there's something else I could salvage from OOTP, HBP, and DH, but I can't be arsed to remember it. UGH.
The last word on Albus was that he was an innately good person led astray by LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV. *pukes* I see what you Snapefen mean when you say she has no comprehension of what she actually WROTE. I thought Dumbledore was, to be polite about it, distorting the truth in King's Cross. She had him instructing Harry to ignore a FLAYED BABY, it wasn't exactly subtle that he and Harry might be In The Wrong. While he maybe did deserve some consolation, he was obviously a Flawed Narrator. Come on, even Snape would present a somewhat distorted view of events if you asked him to narrate his own backstory - it's human nature. But in the interviews, she showed that his version of events and characterizations was actually the party line, in DIRECT contradiction to what she WROTE. *HEADLAPTOP* Good GRIEF. THAT is disturbing.
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Date: 2008-05-26 07:49 pm (UTC)...I now realize that the Harry Potter series that reappeared after the three-year-summer was a far uglier one than the one that had gone on vacation, and that perhaps it would have been better to remember the characters as they were. Oh well. We got Dumbledore backstory, Luna Lovegood, Neville's character arc, and Snape's backstory. Those were valuable things. I'm certain there's something else I could salvage from OOTP, HBP, and DH, but I can't be arsed to remember it. UGH.
The last word on Albus was that he was an innately good person led astray by LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV. *pukes* I see what you Snapefen mean when you say she has no comprehension of what she actually WROTE. I thought Dumbledore was, to be polite about it, distorting the truth in King's Cross. She had him instructing Harry to ignore a FLAYED BABY, it wasn't exactly subtle that he and Harry might be In The Wrong. While he maybe did deserve some consolation, he was obviously a Flawed Narrator. Come on, even Snape would present a somewhat distorted view of events if you asked him to narrate his own backstory - it's human nature. But in the interviews, she showed that his version of events and characterizations was actually the party line, in DIRECT contradiction to what she WROTE. *HEADLAPTOP* Good GRIEF. THAT is disturbing.