I said I would shut up, and instead post a comment to the topics you raised in your original entry. But since you did post an answer to me here, I suppose you are OK with a few more comments from me. I will make it two posts to be able to say what I want to say, and then I will come back here no more, I promise.
Your comment about introverts and extroverts is very interesting - I have actually thought the same thing! When I first entered online fandom I was quite baffled when I noticed the animosity between some Snape and Sirius fans. There seemed to be some strange loyalty to their favorite characters: Snape and Sirius hate each other, so if you love Snape you must hate Sirius, if you love Sirius you must hate Snape...
I want to repeat what I said before: I don't hate Snape. I find him difficult to like, but that's not the same thing. I do admire his incredible courage in book four, for instance, when he instantly agrees to go back to Voldemort, who means to kill him for his treason, with nothing but his Occlumency skill to protect him. The man didn't even take a minute to consider! Truly outstanding. As you can see from this entry in my livejournal (which has been sadly neglected for a long time now,) Snape was not the one I named as my least favorite character among the so called "good guys": http://neonorne.livejournal.com/1841.html I really think Snape deserved a better fate than death by Nagini in DH...
As for Sirius - I never meant to start a discussion of Sirius on this thread. That would have been bordering on rude, considering your original blog entry. But you asked if I was a Sirius fan and I saw no reason to deny it. (Thank you for your generous gift of positive remarks about the one you thought was my favorite, by the way. I did appreciate that, very much.)I thought I would keep my answer very short, though. If I were to line out all my thoughts and evaluations of that character, I would need the space of a long essay or perhaps a whole book. But seeing your response I now think my answer was maybe too short and probably worded a bit clumsily. Since it seems to me that most of the posters here love Snape, my chief aim in the way I worded my answer was to make it very clear that although I do love Sirius I do not approve of or in any way defend all the 'Marauder' antics or their unfair attacks on Snape. I have been in some discussions earlier where I have seen some fans jump at confessed Sirius love with an "Oh, so you think bullying is OK, do you!" I don't. At all. If you care at all - and I won't be offended in the slightest if you don't! - to hear more about my Siriuslove, there is a (also too short...) summary here in my journal: http://neonorne.livejournal.com/1711.html That entry is a cut-and-paste from something older. Maybe I would have worded it differently now, but I still stand by it.
Also, I could have made a list of the incidents where I thought the man acted like an idiot, but that was not the purpose of that entry. There were times during reading where I wanted to crawl into the book and slap the man upside the face, or shake some sense into him, believe me!
Ok, I will stop here, more about Snape and entitlement in part two...
Re: Entitled?!
Your comment about introverts and extroverts is very interesting - I have actually thought the same thing! When I first entered online fandom I was quite baffled when I noticed the animosity between some Snape and Sirius fans. There seemed to be some strange loyalty to their favorite characters: Snape and Sirius hate each other, so if you love Snape you must hate Sirius, if you love Sirius you must hate Snape...
I want to repeat what I said before: I don't hate Snape. I find him difficult to like, but that's not the same thing. I do admire his incredible courage in book four, for instance, when he instantly agrees to go back to Voldemort, who means to kill him for his treason, with nothing but his Occlumency skill to protect him. The man didn't even take a minute to consider! Truly outstanding. As you can see from this entry in my livejournal (which has been sadly neglected for a long time now,) Snape was not the one I named as my least favorite character among the so called "good guys": http://neonorne.livejournal.com/1841.html I really think Snape deserved a better fate than death by Nagini in DH...
As for Sirius - I never meant to start a discussion of Sirius on this thread. That would have been bordering on rude, considering your original blog entry. But you asked if I was a Sirius fan and I saw no reason to deny it. (Thank you for your generous gift of positive remarks about the one you thought was my favorite, by the way. I did appreciate that, very much.)I thought I would keep my answer very short, though. If I were to line out all my thoughts and evaluations of that character, I would need the space of a long essay or perhaps a whole book. But seeing your response I now think my answer was maybe too short and probably worded a bit clumsily. Since it seems to me that most of the posters here love Snape, my chief aim in the way I worded my answer was to make it very clear that although I do love Sirius I do not approve of or in any way defend all the 'Marauder' antics or their unfair attacks on Snape. I have been in some discussions earlier where I have seen some fans jump at confessed Sirius love with an "Oh, so you think bullying is OK, do you!" I don't. At all. If you care at all - and I won't be offended in the slightest if you don't! - to hear more about my Siriuslove, there is a (also too short...) summary here in my journal: http://neonorne.livejournal.com/1711.html That entry is a cut-and-paste from something older. Maybe I would have worded it differently now, but I still stand by it.
Also, I could have made a list of the incidents where I thought the man acted like an idiot, but that was not the purpose of that entry. There were times during reading where I wanted to crawl into the book and slap the man upside the face, or shake some sense into him, believe me!
Ok, I will stop here, more about Snape and entitlement in part two...