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More Harry Potter- Does anyone else think Snapes a goodie?

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imnot27 · 28/09/2006 11:22

Having re-read The Half Blood Prince last week, I think he is on the right side, but no-one agrees with me! Anyone else sad enough to have an opinion on this?

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DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2006 22:29

No, not in my case. (My name reveals my area of interest). I just meant any aspect of HP can be discussed endlessly by HP fans.

Nice to know DR has got other work. I don't think he will ever be anyone other than Harry in my mind, but as an actor being associated with one character is supposed to be the kiss of death on the career, so nice to see he can do something else.

fartmeistergeneral · 28/09/2006 22:30

weeeellll, he was quite harry-ish, glasses 'n' all. I think the whole reference was that he was basically harry potterish having these sexual feelings.

fartmeistergeneral · 28/09/2006 22:31

well, maybe not harry potterish, but pushing the fact that he's the young actor who played potter etc. Oh, I can't explain myself tonight, sorry, ignore me...........

alexsmum · 28/09/2006 22:31

ok dumbledores girl-coming round to that idea actually now i have read abot grindenwald

DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2006 22:31

Oh right, so not a difficult role for him?

DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2006 22:32

Alexsmum - what have you read about Grindlewald? Where?

Medea · 28/09/2006 22:37

Well I am only on book 3, so all this Dumbledore business is a big surprise (!) BUT I have been convinced from the beginning (nearly) that Snapes is a goodie. I feel like all the hints are there. . .and I'd be really surprised (and it would undermine Rowling's artfulness, I think) if he turned out to be a baddie, no matter how much he may appear to be. I mean Rowling is like an heir to Shakespeare, the way she shows again and again that appearances are deceiving.

aitch71 · 28/09/2006 22:38

the funny thing about daniel radcliffe is that i think he's a rotten actor but whenever i've seen him inteviewed on telly he has been HILARIOUS. i'm not sure he knows how funny he is, which i find very sweet. i am loving extras, by the way. i've seen the BAFTAs one for work and i pmsl. (how do you add the past participle there?)

Pruni · 28/09/2006 22:39

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Molesworth · 28/09/2006 22:40

extras, hilarious, DR was fantastic

alexsmum · 28/09/2006 22:41

dd-your post of 10.16-grindelwald is essential to the plot

aitch71 · 28/09/2006 22:42

he really was, wasn't he, molesworth...? i'm terribly keen on DR now.

DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2006 22:43

Oh right. I thought you meant you had read something else about it.

alexsmum · 28/09/2006 22:45

you got all excited then!

JoRowling · 28/09/2006 22:46

Look, you lot, you're all barking up the wrong trees.
And hands off Daniel, he's underage.

Molesworth · 28/09/2006 22:46

me too - that will have done him a lot of favours!

Bucketsofdinosaurs · 28/09/2006 22:48

OK so how about Fawkes being a horcrux for Dumbledore - maybe he had to kill someone long ago, maybe about the time Voldemort got a wand with a phoenix feather in it? There's got to be more to the phoenix motif - Fawkes has been in it since Book 1 and why is the Order of the Phoenix so-called?

albusdumbledore · 28/09/2006 22:50

i am very very disappointed that some of you would think that i could be of the dark side.there is much you do not know and alas i cannot tell you until you are older.

harry is not a horcrux by the way.

severussnape · 28/09/2006 22:52

you nasy muggle worms-how could you doubt me?
20 points from gryffindor!

JoRowling · 28/09/2006 22:53

Oi, Albus, back in my brain, you mad old fecker.

There is one character that everyone has overlooked - you'll be kicking yourselves when the book comes out.

alexsmum · 28/09/2006 22:55

lol!!!!!!!!!!

alexsmum · 28/09/2006 23:00

i think dumbledore is going to use his portrait to communicate

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 29/09/2006 08:33

am re-reading the book

have decided that either

dd is a baddy or

jkr is not as good a writer as I thought

also have concluded that a lot of what is going on is to save Malfoy.

there is always an undercurrant in the books. baddies will sacrifice human life for their ends even if its on their side, (eg the horcruxes) whereas the goodies won't. so dd etc will not even wish to see malfoy sacrifced. to fight this to fight a much bigger, symbolic battle about the preciousness of human life. ok thats not clear, hope you can all see what i mean. think the battle for malfory's morality is crucial to bk 7. thus snape is a goody.

i think what made me think dd was a baddy was his whole making harry get slughorn's memory, not giving him info til he did-it seemed out of character. but i can see how it does make sense. will ponder.

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 29/09/2006 08:35

on balance i think dd is not a baddy

the quest bit of the book could have been better plotted

loved the london gin soaked orphanages, btw.

anyone read witch week, diana wynne jones? kind of wondering of hp will have same ending...

DumbledoresGirl · 29/09/2006 09:21

Jeez FillyJonk, can I just let you know (or whoever it was first put forward the idea that Dumbledore is a baddy) that you have completely unsettled me now. Last night dh and I had an exciting time taking ds1 to view a secondary school (he is in Year 6), and at the moment ds3 has a terrible cough that is really worrying me, but what was my first thought when I woke up this morning? "Oh God Dumbledore can't really be a baddy can he?" This is going to plague me now until Book 7 comes out. I can't believe how upset and anxious I am about the outcome!

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