What I think Aja meant is that while not everyone likes Snape as much as anyone else he doesn't seem to inspire the same kind of anger regarding his interpretation.
But that also depends where you hang out at in the fandom right? You must not have hang out in HP4GU or alt.fan.harry-potter, two of the largest discussion groups in the fandom where Snape by far is the most "controversial" (based on your definition), and not to mention others huge forums like SQ or mugglenet. Bashers and apologists battle in heat debates on daily bases with lots of nasty name callings, generalizations, angers...dominating most of threads. So much so that I ended up gotten tired of any sort of Snape discussions now even being a Snape fan myself. While on the other hand, I hadn't see as much "controversial" for Draco (in fact there's very minimal mention of him in those forums), it's only mostly at FAP, since its one place where most Draco fans dwell, but that's only one part of fandom. So I really not sure how true Aja's quote is, it might be true within the area you and Aja hang out at, but from what I experience in multiple parts of the fandom all these years so far, I disagree. In fact, Harry, Sirius, Dumbledore, Hagrid, Hermione all got their sheer amount of "controversy" as well, even more so than Draco in many parts of the fandom.
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Date: 2004-12-01 11:28 am (UTC)But that also depends where you hang out at in the fandom right? You must not have hang out in HP4GU or alt.fan.harry-potter, two of the largest discussion groups in the fandom where Snape by far is the most "controversial" (based on your definition), and not to mention others huge forums like SQ or mugglenet. Bashers and apologists battle in heat debates on daily bases with lots of nasty name callings, generalizations, angers...dominating most of threads. So much so that I ended up gotten tired of any sort of Snape discussions now even being a Snape fan myself. While on the other hand, I hadn't see as much "controversial" for Draco (in fact there's very minimal mention of him in those forums), it's only mostly at FAP, since its one place where most Draco fans dwell, but that's only one part of fandom. So I really not sure how true Aja's quote is, it might be true within the area you and Aja hang out at, but from what I experience in multiple parts of the fandom all these years so far, I disagree. In fact, Harry, Sirius, Dumbledore, Hagrid, Hermione all got their sheer amount of "controversy" as well, even more so than Draco in many parts of the fandom.