Hello. My name is Kayla and I came to this journal because I saw the corrections you did for whitestar who is one of my betas. I was amazed by your ability to write and I've come hear hoping to learn more of it myself. I began reading and writing HP fanfictin last summer in order to learn how to write.
Personally, I always viewed Snape as a combination of Faustus and Frankenstein, but then I am a scientist myself and base my view of Snape off of that. I see Snape as a man who wasn't seduced by the darkness but by the power and thrall of all these new and forbidden spells. He was a man who was constantly experimenting with magic and developing and creating his own spells and I think that he saw Voldemort as a sort of father figure who could teach him all these new and amazing things. With Voldemort, he could become more than what he was; someone that others would be proud of and admire. He wanted to be accepted but more than that, he wanted to be respected.
I see Voldemort as a quasi-father figure who took Snape to the side and said, "I don't care what you are or were, that doesn't matter to me. What matters is what you will become." And Snape fell so easily into that trap because all he ever wanted but never really received was love and acceptance. I also think, like Marlowe's Faustus, he really believe that with his increase in power he could do some good and wasn't signing his heart over to darkness and hellfire. However, I think that, ultimately, Snape was so obsessed with seeing what he could do that he didn't stop to think about what he should do and he let his quest for power consume him utterly.
Personally, my mother and I (who are both huge Snape fans, she got me into HP last summer) think that DD is very Machiavellian (and JK later agreed) and never cared a whit about Snape nor really understood why Snape was the man he was. I think that that he was all to willing to ascribe the blame with Snape without thinking for a moment about why Snape developed the way he did because if he had, I think he would have found his own actions wanting and it was his own favouritism of James and the mistreatment of Snape that helped push Snape over to the dark side. DD's sacrificial treatment of Snape in the 7th book, his surprise that Snape still loved Lily, etc, all of those suggested to me that DD never really understood Snape and only saw him as a useful tool. I love to write DD as sort of twisted like this because I think it shows that sometimes those who work for the 'good' side and do lots of things that most of us would approve of can be very twisted and have many flaws.
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Date: 2008-07-18 01:40 am (UTC)Personally, I always viewed Snape as a combination of Faustus and Frankenstein, but then I am a scientist myself and base my view of Snape off of that. I see Snape as a man who wasn't seduced by the darkness but by the power and thrall of all these new and forbidden spells. He was a man who was constantly experimenting with magic and developing and creating his own spells and I think that he saw Voldemort as a sort of father figure who could teach him all these new and amazing things. With Voldemort, he could become more than what he was; someone that others would be proud of and admire. He wanted to be accepted but more than that, he wanted to be respected.
I see Voldemort as a quasi-father figure who took Snape to the side and said, "I don't care what you are or were, that doesn't matter to me. What matters is what you will become." And Snape fell so easily into that trap because all he ever wanted but never really received was love and acceptance. I also think, like Marlowe's Faustus, he really believe that with his increase in power he could do some good and wasn't signing his heart over to darkness and hellfire. However, I think that, ultimately, Snape was so obsessed with seeing what he could do that he didn't stop to think about what he should do and he let his quest for power consume him utterly.
Personally, my mother and I (who are both huge Snape fans, she got me into HP last summer) think that DD is very Machiavellian (and JK later agreed) and never cared a whit about Snape nor really understood why Snape was the man he was. I think that that he was all to willing to ascribe the blame with Snape without thinking for a moment about why Snape developed the way he did because if he had, I think he would have found his own actions wanting and it was his own favouritism of James and the mistreatment of Snape that helped push Snape over to the dark side. DD's sacrificial treatment of Snape in the 7th book, his surprise that Snape still loved Lily, etc, all of those suggested to me that DD never really understood Snape and only saw him as a useful tool. I love to write DD as sort of twisted like this because I think it shows that sometimes those who work for the 'good' side and do lots of things that most of us would approve of can be very twisted and have many flaws.