OH my gosh,I actually influenced you?! As you know, I think your fics are wonderful, because you're really thinking things through and writing Severus as a believable human being - something Rowling doesn't really do, though all the potential is there.
What's interesting to me about this essay, coming back to it after DH, is that so much of it still seems right to me. It seems to me that Rowling worked very hard to diminish Snape's "hero's journey" in DH - perhaps she was afraid it would overshadow Harry's; perhaps (my opinion) she simply didn't see what she had done with this character. But his heroism still shines through all her attempts to diminish him - and he *was* Harry's bodyguard. I was right about that, at any rate. )
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Re: great essay
Date: 2008-05-16 03:48 am (UTC)What's interesting to me about this essay, coming back to it after DH, is that so much of it still seems right to me. It seems to me that Rowling worked very hard to diminish Snape's "hero's journey" in DH - perhaps she was afraid it would overshadow Harry's; perhaps (my opinion) she simply didn't see what she had done with this character. But his heroism still shines through all her attempts to diminish him - and he *was* Harry's bodyguard. I was right about that, at any rate. )