It's taken me a little while to feel this way, but going against my fangirlish-nature (which is total drooling over Snape as a fascinating character, which = hot to a fangirl...) but...
I'm glad Rowling ended the book's interaction between Harry and Snape in the abrupt manner she did. I could infer through the epilogue that Harry had in fact come to terms with both the inherent good in Snape just as much as he'd come to peace with the occasional (okay, more than occasional) assholishness of his father and his father's friends - characters he'd come to almost worship as (and here's that word again) heroes. James and his crew were assholes, but I'd dare define them as heroes. Just as Snape, though self-serving, sacrificed his well being time and time again for "the greater good".
And Harry never getting to burry the hatchet with Snape? That happens to a lot of people in life. Which for me, made the scenario a little more believable - which was for me, the main reason I enjoyed the books - very believable characters.
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Date: 2007-07-27 09:09 pm (UTC)I'm glad Rowling ended the book's interaction between Harry and Snape in the abrupt manner she did. I could infer through the epilogue that Harry had in fact come to terms with both the inherent good in Snape just as much as he'd come to peace with the occasional (okay, more than occasional) assholishness of his father and his father's friends - characters he'd come to almost worship as (and here's that word again) heroes. James and his crew were assholes, but I'd dare define them as heroes. Just as Snape, though self-serving, sacrificed his well being time and time again for "the greater good".
And Harry never getting to burry the hatchet with Snape? That happens to a lot of people in life. Which for me, made the scenario a little more believable - which was for me, the main reason I enjoyed the books - very believable characters.