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May. 20th, 2007 05:29 pmToday has been all-Snape content for me, and pretty emotional in the process. I went to one round table where we dscussed nature vs. nuture for a lot of characters and it tends to shock me how things that sem obvious as theories to me about Snape's character are really new and surprising to other people.
I got into a long thing about how the wizaridng world is small, how his Deather Eater peers had to have known he was a half-blood and how he was probably loathed within that circle not just for his skills and blood but for the obvious indication of a traitorous nature. Isn't it possible that Snape's greatest sin is his first sin, the one that leads to whomever he has killed, etc. -- and that is choosing to be a collaborator, not, at first, to stay alive, but to be treated as something halfway human, not realizing that halfway was all it would get him. I went into this whole thing about Jewish Nazi-collaborators during WWII and also talking about the fact that Eileen quite cleary just chose her husband over her son over and over again and what that does to a kid. It made me pretty emotional, which may seem silly to you, unless you're very fannish in general or have walked this Snape thing with me.
Then we went to the big Border's panel on whether Snape was good or evil. One panelist was THE AWESOME because she talked about the Osiris/Horus/Isis/Set thing and Anubis's role in all of that and how Snape is playing the Anubis role. This is one of those things that's really important and interesting to me and she did a great job with it (and people seemed rapt, again, I'm shocked that fandom isn't more aware of this analysis) eventhough she left out the parts where Anubis oversees embalming and functions as a poisoner, is the weigher of souls and the god of the roadway. You all know I'd have an Anubis tattoo if it didn't make me look like asshole goth #895428920.
At the end of the panel each panelist was asked to say whether Snape would live or die and that panelist quoted Hamlet, "Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" It made me a little teary really. It's been such a ride.
I got into a long thing about how the wizaridng world is small, how his Deather Eater peers had to have known he was a half-blood and how he was probably loathed within that circle not just for his skills and blood but for the obvious indication of a traitorous nature. Isn't it possible that Snape's greatest sin is his first sin, the one that leads to whomever he has killed, etc. -- and that is choosing to be a collaborator, not, at first, to stay alive, but to be treated as something halfway human, not realizing that halfway was all it would get him. I went into this whole thing about Jewish Nazi-collaborators during WWII and also talking about the fact that Eileen quite cleary just chose her husband over her son over and over again and what that does to a kid. It made me pretty emotional, which may seem silly to you, unless you're very fannish in general or have walked this Snape thing with me.
Then we went to the big Border's panel on whether Snape was good or evil. One panelist was THE AWESOME because she talked about the Osiris/Horus/Isis/Set thing and Anubis's role in all of that and how Snape is playing the Anubis role. This is one of those things that's really important and interesting to me and she did a great job with it (and people seemed rapt, again, I'm shocked that fandom isn't more aware of this analysis) eventhough she left out the parts where Anubis oversees embalming and functions as a poisoner, is the weigher of souls and the god of the roadway. You all know I'd have an Anubis tattoo if it didn't make me look like asshole goth #895428920.
At the end of the panel each panelist was asked to say whether Snape would live or die and that panelist quoted Hamlet, "Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" It made me a little teary really. It's been such a ride.
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