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| kittylefish | 2008.05.14 - 08:02PM | 7: Boggart and Patronus | Signed |
| oh.my.god. i've struggled a lot with what we never saw about snape in the books, which of course were from harry's viewpoint, and were written by jkr who i don't think saw snape as actually a hero. but this chapter was just amazing in the way you showed him coming to terms with the meaning of his life, really. how he has defined himself through his choice, and that it is a choice. ack. not being very articulate, i fear, because i really want to run off and read more now. Author's Response: "Out of love, and because it needs doing." is the epigraph for the next chapter. I think for years Snape has defined himself by the disastrous choice he made when he was 17; he needs to see that he's defined by his choice now, and that what he chooses now is unselfish love, even if he can never say those words. By "needs to see" I mean needs to see in order to truly be able to do ALL in his power to protect his children; he's spent his adult life half crippled by guilt and self-hatred, and he can't afford that any more. | |||
| tigerlily2 | 2008.04.19 - 05:27PM | 7: Boggart and Patronus | Signed |
| Very nice! Thank you very much!!! Author's Response: Thank you! Glad you're continuing to enjoy | |||
| crowtato | 2008.04.18 - 06:30PM | 7: Boggart and Patronus | Signed |
| Aaand [to ramble a bit more] I don't think you have to see some of the alternative interpretations as artistic failure on your part, especially considering Snape's complexity--there are so many interpretations of how we [want to] define his (or any) morality. Here's where I really don't know if I'm actually saying what I mean, but I'll give it (or maybe something entirely different) another go: If Snape defined himself by his choices, he'd still acknowledge that he couldn't control the longer-term & potentially-very-bad consequences (for others as well as for himself, as was keenly written in the end of this recent chapter). But beyond that, I can't help thinking he'd be likely to have an even more dispirited (but no less rational/honest) view of the difference between a choice's intentions and likely consequences--maybe that would come back up in later dwellings? (Especially in this situation where even if "his path is clear," he sees life & [a lot of] death at stake, and slim chances of all working out in the end. Would spite or resentment haunt him [again?] at some point when the situation roughened up and his potion wore off [assuming it would]?) ...But my arguments often relate more to swiss cheese than to reason. I'm curious which holes might seem most blatant, but more interested to see your future chapters! Author's Response: I have some less-finished stories posted over on my lj--terri_testing--including the first in my Headmaster Snape series which follows this one. On his very first full day, his so-clever plan to save the Hufflepuffs almost gets two students killed.... Yes, I think Severus is very aware of the difference--as in, almost total disconnect--between intentions, likely consequences, and actual effects.... One of the things that has to drive him maddest about Harry is how Harry keeps totally evading the most likely consequences of his well-intentioned but rash choices. (Personally I ascribe Harry's luck to the effect of Lily's sacrifice--and his luck in DH after his majority to Dumbledore's dedicating HIS voluntary sacrifice to protecting Harry's final quest. No other way could Harry so consistently do the Stupid but Noble thing and get away with it. And when Dumble's protection wears off too, Harry's gonna be in trouble with the bad habits he's developed.... Grins. Wanna write it?) Will spite and resentment haunt Snape again? Well, his potion's effects are designed to be permanent, and he IS a potions master. But insight is very different from habit... Moreover, realistically, how could we tell, in Snape's last year, if he were feeling spiteful or resentful? He's got to be acting worse than ever, given the role he's playing. Though Dumbledore does have one more hoop for him to jump through which may help.... | |||
| Trickie Woo | 2008.04.14 - 09:13PM | 7: Boggart and Patronus | Signed |
| His choices since that night when he confessed all to Dumbledore have proven him to be a very moral person, too bad he can't see that himself. He was the most moral adult character in the books, probbaly the most moral of all the characters adults and children. Author's Response: Your "too bad he can't see that himself" comment distresses me a bit, as it appears I have failed artistically. I had thought that the final thing his truth serum would make him--very unwillingly!--see was that he was defined by his choices now, not just his 20-year-ago mistakes. But apparently my ending failed to convey that. | |||
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