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TOUCHE! ("Tired Of Ugly and Hard-to-swallow Expositions")
Scabbers isn't a spy or a shape-changer or anything significant or exciting like that. He's just a rat. A kid's pet rat.
Snape was never a follower of Voldemort. He is one mean and nasty guy all right, but he is also a man of honor and integrity, and no one with a sense of honor or integrity would ever have followed Voldemort, because Voldemort is Evil.
Neville is not Sneaky!Neville. He is a timid, insecure, disorganized little kid with weak magical powers who is always open and straightforward and honest about himself. He is incapable of deceit, and the very notion that he might be hiding anything about himself from his fellow students is therefore fundamentally absurd.
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Oh. Did I mention that this was TOUCHE circa August, 1999?
I heard all three of these statements made in retort to certain fan speculations before the release of _PoA._ (For that matter, even though we now all know that Neville does keep secrets, my own reading of him as Sneaky!Neville is still not at all a popular interpretation of his character.)
All that said, though, I do happen to agree overall with Prefect Marcus' interpretations, with the possible exception of Snape's "mission." I certainly agree that it wouldn't make very much sense for Snape to be sent back to Voldemort as a spy, but I can't say that it would surprise me very much if he were. Sometimes JKR just doesn't think these things through quite as carefully as we do, you know. ;-)
Also, while I don't think that Draco "loves" Hermione, I do think that he's got a secret crush on her. And while I'll find it a bit disappointing, it won't surprise me in the least if Snape turns out to have loved Lily.
—Elkins, who agrees that Snape is a "mean ugly shnook," but who would also like to point out that he is our mean ugly shnook.
Posted to HPfGU by Elkins on June 3, 2002 1:18 PM
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