I'm so glad we agree. Reading back through others' reviews I don't see much sympathy for Rowling's Snape-closure, but I find it moving.
Lots of the criticism touches on her only providing glimpses of Snape in the last book, but after some thinking I find the choice appropriate. He's private, not sharing his real thoughts with anyone but Lily and Dumbledore during the whole of his life. This choice sounds right to me. He'd find it beneath him to confide in students, Death Eaters, and he considered key members of the Order enemies. Who else would he tell?
Someone felt cheated by his not conversing with Harry, but that conversation would look entirely ooc. He doesn't talk. He snipes. I think providing Harry with pensieve memories cost him, but he needed to make Harry understand he could trust him so Harry would have the information necessary to defeat Voldemort.
I'm okay with Snape's end. If she could have given us more of him, of course I'd feel grateful. Scenes of him as headmaster would make me squee. Scenes of him with Neville during that time would send me into orbit. Wow. But fanfic writers will fill those gaps.
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Date: 2007-07-23 09:04 pm (UTC)Lots of the criticism touches on her only providing glimpses of Snape in the last book, but after some thinking I find the choice appropriate. He's private, not sharing his real thoughts with anyone but Lily and Dumbledore during the whole of his life. This choice sounds right to me. He'd find it beneath him to confide in students, Death Eaters, and he considered key members of the Order enemies. Who else would he tell?
Someone felt cheated by his not conversing with Harry, but that conversation would look entirely ooc. He doesn't talk. He snipes. I think providing Harry with pensieve memories cost him, but he needed to make Harry understand he could trust him so Harry would have the information necessary to defeat Voldemort.
I'm okay with Snape's end. If she could have given us more of him, of course I'd feel grateful. Scenes of him as headmaster would make me squee. Scenes of him with Neville during that time would send me into orbit. Wow. But fanfic writers will fill those gaps.
I like the book.