January Portus Preview up Now
I just had a chance to listen to the Portus Preview Podcast for the month of January. They interviewed Rachael from SnapeCast who will be hosting SnapeFest at Portus. I have to say I am not a HUGE Snape person. While I do agree that he is at the center of the Harry Potter Series, I pretty much contend that he is still a jerk who did some really heroic things (I am of the opinion that good people can act jerky). But Rachael talks about Snape with such enthusiasm and emotion that it is hard not to get carried away with the discussion.
Take a listen to this podcast which is a nice preview to some of the things that will be happening at Portus.
You can still register for Portus. We would love to see you there!!
Tags: Portus 2008, Severus Snape, SnapeCast, SnapeFest
January 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Sounds to me that someone may have had their mind bewitched!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Mizz Andy- I actually thought of you and your love for Snape while listening to the interview.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
So have you come over to the dark side or are you still a non snaper?
January 30th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I am snape-neutral. Like I said, I agree with Rachael that Snape is the lynchpin of the series but I still can’t say that he is a good guy. He is a complex and fascinating character but anyone who treats students the way he does is an abusive teacher, in my opinion.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Don’t want to turn this into a whole Snape good/bad discussion, but I guess I forgive Snape a little on the whole snarky teacher role as I look at it as a role he was forced into, I don’t think if he had had a choice he would’ve choosen teaching as a profession, it was something that got him out of bad situation and into a worse one. Don’t forget potions was not his choice.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Personally, Snape is like my favorite character.
But that’s just me.
I’ll have to listen to it in the morning.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 4:18 am
I only have one problem with Snape. It is not even related to his treatment of Harry or the other students. I think it is a quite revealing moment that speaks volumes about his true character.
In the beginning of HBP he ridicules Tonks for her “weak” patronous. At that moment we don’t even realize that of all people he is actually the only one who knows exactly what it means. He is nonetheless cruel and completely unsypathetic.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:49 am
I agree with you Shimon that his comment to Tonks was cruel and unsympathetic but maybe it was more a comment towards himself for his own “weak” patronus, because all though his love for Lily was what seemed to drive him, it was also his downfall and I believe his intelligence would’ve told him how “weak” a man he was as his life became all about his weakness for love.
Maybe he meant it as a warning, warning her not to get into a similar situation that he found himself in, and if you look at it in the end she did, her love for Remus may have well led to her own death.
Hmmm I could find an excuse for Snape for everything if I wanted to, I feel the need to protect him. Don’t worry I always have a sensitivity for the underdog character in books, Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, Eponine in Les Miserables.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I must say that I agree with you Penny. Yes, he is integral to the series and there are still many layers to this character that we may never know about. However, his treatment of other students, especially Hermione, completely excludes him from receiving any sympathy from me. Even Dumbledore’s treatment of Snape did not create a soft spot in me for Snape, although it did create more of an understanding within me for his “situation.”
Then again, Alan Rickman makes me completely love Snape. So I guess there are two sides to every sickle, yeah?
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Aziza