It seems to me (and yeah people will scoff and say 'duh!' to this) that she set up the story to be a certain way and never deviated from this over the course of the 20 odd years writing.
Yes. Thank you.
When I first came into the fandom and heard the Gospel of JKR (notice, not the Gospel According to JKR), I was afraid that the last book would be written to complement a twenty-year-old last chapter that an inexperienced, unproven, twenty-something beginning author dreamed up, along with a vision, on a train. She stunted the story, herself, and her characters by doing this, IMO, and I love seeing someone else saying something along those lines.
Oh, my. She did stunt Snape. Such a "gift of a character", and she never utilized his potential! She didn't utilize what she did with Draco at the end of HBP. She stuck stubbornly to this agenda, made up when she was a very different person on top of everything else, and ruined... I hate saying that... the end.
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Yes. Thank you.
When I first came into the fandom and heard the Gospel of JKR (notice, not the Gospel According to JKR), I was afraid that the last book would be written to complement a twenty-year-old last chapter that an inexperienced, unproven, twenty-something beginning author dreamed up, along with a vision, on a train. She stunted the story, herself, and her characters by doing this, IMO, and I love seeing someone else saying something along those lines.
Oh, my. She did stunt Snape. Such a "gift of a character", and she never utilized his potential! She didn't utilize what she did with Draco at the end of HBP. She stuck stubbornly to this agenda, made up when she was a very different person on top of everything else, and ruined... I hate saying that... the end.