It's amazing how this series in which one character's name gets put on every single book can have the most heart-rending emotional focus and arguably the biggest emotional struggle and the most heroism--is a completely other character. Did JK Rowling know she was doing that? Was it inadvertent or by design.
I think JKR did know she was doing it. In interviews before the series was finished, every time people asked important questions about Snape's motives or storyline, she would refuse to answer, saying it would give away too much. She had a lot bound up in that character. He partly reminded her of her dead mother (her former mean teacher also being her late mother's boss and good friend) and partly, I believe, he had exaggerated versions of her own least favorite personality traits. The parent-generation person who is guilty of ruining the life of an innocent baby, Snape's storyline, is related to JKR's guilt over the difficult life she set up for her first child when they were on the run from her first marriage, in my guess.
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I think JKR did know she was doing it. In interviews before the series was finished, every time people asked important questions about Snape's motives or storyline, she would refuse to answer, saying it would give away too much. She had a lot bound up in that character. He partly reminded her of her dead mother (her former mean teacher also being her late mother's boss and good friend) and partly, I believe, he had exaggerated versions of her own least favorite personality traits. The parent-generation person who is guilty of ruining the life of an innocent baby, Snape's storyline, is related to JKR's guilt over the difficult life she set up for her first child when they were on the run from her first marriage, in my guess.
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Snape <3