BethMI wrote:I'm with you there. {sighs and frowns} I know JK didn't like Severus' character at all. So, we are lucky that she "redeemed" him in the end ... but still ... he's a potion's master for crying out loud. He is second hand to a maniac that keeps a pet snake. Do you seriously think that he wouldn't have antidotes, blood replenishing potion, coagulants, etc on him?marilaine wrote:I still cried when they show Severus' death and memories. I get the feeling I'm gonna bawl every single time I watch.
~ML
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~Beth from Michigan
Okay, so I'm really not supposed to be here, work backlog is insane, but here on a break and saw this post and just had to reply. (And admitting to cutting&pasting from a post I'd written elsewhere.)
I respectfully and vehemently and intensely disagree.
She *didn't* like Severus? On the contrary. To an extreme degree. She *adored* him.
Nobody in her books is perfect. Except maybe Lily. There you go. Lily, as written, is perfect. Loving, loyal, earthmothersupreme, and her only apparent loss of temper or moment of imperfection is when she’s been pushed to the extreme of being taunted in an extremely public racist way.
By Snape.
Who throughout the books is, yes, all imperfection, no redeeming features whatsoever … until the very end of the last book, when we discover that he was raised in a miserably dysfunctional home (excusing away some of his bad behavior) and that he did it all for love (excusing away the rest of his bad behavior). He’s shown to be more loyal than the rest, more courageous than the rest, more brilliant than the rest, and to truly love on a level that the rest can only aspire to. And … the only perfect character in the books truly loved him right back.
I’d say she adores Severus. And that even that is an understatement.
Editing to add that she even gives us a kick in the gut in the epilogue, just to make sure we all feel sufficiently guilty for having so horribly misjudged her beloved Severus all through the rest of the books.
Adoration? Way past it.