Quite the contrary, I love hearing different people's opinions :)
...the Lily/Snape dynamic like Tonks/Remus was a concept she plucked out of the Internet.
*laughs* That...actually makes a disturbing amount of sense!
It did honestly come out of nowhere. For Tonks/Remus there was no hint (even though it would have been so easy!), but like you say, in the case of Snape/Lily there seems to be something directly contradicting it. There is no suggestion of friendship, or even common human decency in that scene! For another example of plot character development out of the blue, see Sirius. From being the man of the profoundly deep, "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals," about Crouch's treatment of Winky, to mistreating his own house-elf one book later! I know that explanations can be offered for this, that one can be blind to one faults where one can see them clearly in others, but when you have to do that much interpreting/explaining away, it's a sign that there's something wrong with the text.
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Date: 2008-03-13 12:04 am (UTC)...the Lily/Snape dynamic like Tonks/Remus was a concept she plucked out of the Internet.
*laughs* That...actually makes a disturbing amount of sense!
It did honestly come out of nowhere. For Tonks/Remus there was no hint (even though it would have been so easy!), but like you say, in the case of Snape/Lily there seems to be something directly contradicting it. There is no suggestion of friendship, or even common human decency in that scene! For another example of
plotcharacter development out of the blue, see Sirius. From being the man of the profoundly deep, "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals," about Crouch's treatment of Winky, to mistreating his own house-elf one book later! I know that explanations can be offered for this, that one can be blind to one faults where one can see them clearly in others, but when you have to do that much interpreting/explaining away, it's a sign that there's something wrong with the text.