Good post, and I absolutely agree with you on this. These characters have made terrible choices, they all joined the Death Eaters for what probably seemed like good reasons at the time. There’s no need to whitewash a character to like them. It’s kind of weird actually when fans always say that they like the HP characters because they are not black and white, yet at the same time many insist that their favourite character possibly can’t have any bad qualities or have made any bad choices.
Snape is one of my favourite characters, but I see no reason to think that he joined the Death Eaters having no clue what he was getting into, or that he spent his entire DE career making potions for the other Death Eaters or baking bisquits or whatever. It’s not necessary to think that he has gone on a killing rampage either, or anything like that, but like others have pointed out, there is no point to a redemption storyline if the character hasn’t done anything to be redeemed from.
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Date: 2006-05-15 12:43 pm (UTC)Good post, and I absolutely agree with you on this. These characters have made terrible choices, they all joined the Death Eaters for what probably seemed like good reasons at the time. There’s no need to whitewash a character to like them. It’s kind of weird actually when fans always say that they like the HP characters because they are not black and white, yet at the same time many insist that their favourite character possibly can’t have any bad qualities or have made any bad choices.
Snape is one of my favourite characters, but I see no reason to think that he joined the Death Eaters having no clue what he was getting into, or that he spent his entire DE career making potions for the other Death Eaters or baking bisquits or whatever. It’s not necessary to think that he has gone on a killing rampage either, or anything like that, but like others have pointed out, there is no point to a redemption storyline if the character hasn’t done anything to be redeemed from.