But she never defines what the Dark Arts ARE, and then we see that running around with a werewolf endangering people, or using a Map as a covert surveillance device, is NOT dark arts.
'Yeah, he saves the damn weinerkids in Book 3, big deal' I don't get it. Isn't it a good thing to save people's lives?? And he is jumping into the scene of his trauma to do it.
I mean, Harry's focus is pretty squarely on himself for most of the books, too.
'A stronger character would have learned to see beyond his wants and needs and appreciate the bigger picture' Like the way Harry so clearly learns to do??
I mean, in what way would Snape have done that? And at what point in the story? In book 5, say, or Book 4, what should he have done differently?
It seems to me that in both of those books, jkr sets up the story in such a way that Snape is damned no matter what he does. But maybe you think there was a clear, alternative course of action he should have taken, which would represent a morally better choice.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2016-10-18 11:48 pm (UTC)'Yeah, he saves the damn weinerkids in Book 3, big deal'
I don't get it. Isn't it a good thing to save people's lives?? And he is jumping into the scene of his trauma to do it.
I mean, Harry's focus is pretty squarely on himself for most of the books, too.
'A stronger character would have learned to see beyond his wants and needs and appreciate the bigger picture'
Like the way Harry so clearly learns to do??
I mean, in what way would Snape have done that? And at what point in the story? In book 5, say, or Book 4, what should he have done differently?
It seems to me that in both of those books, jkr sets up the story in such a way that Snape is damned no matter what he does. But maybe you think there was a clear, alternative course of action he should have taken, which would represent a morally better choice.