Best Snape-centric essay I've come across + Draco

[dangermousie]

Deals with HBP Snape really plausibly and really well with a theory I would love to be true.

here

and a really good essay on Draco.

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to agree with the Snape essay. I honestly think that Snape is going to turn out being the tragic hero here. And the author was right, Snape is the only one who would have been able to follow through with that order. None of the other Order members could have done it, but I think Snape is so unfalteringly loyal he would do it. He'd hate it, but he'd do it. And if you think of it that way, it breaks your heart for Snape, because he proves in chapter two that he does have a good deal of compassion and here he's having to kill the only man who saw him for what he is and never doubted him. The only time Snape reacts violently is when Harry calls him a coward. That only makes sense if Snape thinks he's just done the bravest thing in his life, and I think he's so angry there because he just killed a man he loved, yet no one is going to understand what happened. Poor Snape. Abused as a kid, bullied as a young adult and completely mistrusted as a man. Yes, he's a bad man, he's petty, he's bitter, he's mean, but that doesn't mean he's evil. He's almost been broken beyond fixing, yes, but I think he's still good.

And JKR makes a big deal of appearances being deceiving. Sirius looked like a murderer too, yet he was good. Mad Eye seemed like a stand up guy, but he was bad. Lupin is a werewolf, but that doesn't make him bad.

OMG prediction!

[katranna.livejournal.com]

Snape will eventually take Dumbly's place in Harry's life as guide and protective father-figure. :-P They can share issues.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

And JKR makes a big deal of appearances being deceiving.

Exactly. I will be very dissapointed if Snape is indeed teh ebil.

And I agree that Snape was the only one able to follow through. Harry couldn't.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

It would be too easy if Snape was evil and JKR is a better writer than that. Just making him evil is a cop out. It would be more shocking if someone like Lupin or something was evil and leave Snape out of it entirely than to go the stereotypic way with him.

Interestingly I think Snape would be the only one who would follow Dumbledore blindly enough to be able to go through with an order like that without question. Snape has had the terrible past and the soldier's mentality to follow through.

And there's also that thing that people kept bringing up that Dumbledore knows about Snape that makes him convinced that Snape is his man. They never explain that well enough for me so I want to know what Dumbledore knew about Snape that made him convinced Snape was good.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Well, both of those essays (particularly the Snape one) are so good that I cannot even add much except for the madness that keeps running through my head in aftermath of HBP. Which is something like this: anuhrt8hiunjh87t486jh1! *runs off to muse some more*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know. My reaction exactly!