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From: amyg at nyc.rr.com <amyg>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:56:21 -0400
Oh, I definitely think that Snape wanted the last thing he saw to be Lily's eyes--I picked up on that, too. I also think by saying "look at me," he also wanted Harry to finally _see_ him, to understand him. Snape saved Harry's life over and over, and Harry continually brushed this aside. Snape was running incredible risks for Lily's son's sake, and all it ever got him was Harry and the Professors at Hogwarts calling him
"coward" and "murderer." The only person who knew what Snape was really up to was dead, and Snape desperately needed both to communicate Dumbledore's message and to finally set the record straight.
As far as other lines in the book being similar to other bits of pop culture, I think that's just because the situations are similar. I don't think one really goes to Rowling for great prose style; I think one goes to Rowling for a compelling story and her amazing ability to deliver emotional sucker punches.
--Amy Goldschlager Freelance writer/editor NYC
----- Original Message ----- From: WAY Vicki Kouchnerkavich <wayvk at henikalibrary.org> Date: Friday, August 3, 2007 10:38 am Subject: [CCBC-Net] Harry Potter 7 comment To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu
> I would like to comment on HP7 and Harry's relationship with Snape
> and how JK Rowling chose to tie
> this up.
>
> I was actually discussing this with another library staff member
> and she pointed out when Snape was
> dying and said to Harry "Potter look at me" or something to that
> effect (I don't have the book in
> front me) that Snape wanted the last thing he saw in this life was
> Lilly's eye (via Harry). I
> certainly did not pick up on that thought and if that is what the
> author intended, it was a
> significant line in the story.
>
> My 28 year son also picked up on several lines in this book, that
> he recalled hearing
> similar "lines" before. And I don't mean to discredit Rowling,
> these are just comments. There is
> a line by Albus Dumbledore with Harry about those not seeking
> power, having it thrust upon them.
> My son heard a line in the TV series Deep Space 9 and in a
> Shakespeare play using the power and
> thrust terms. Then the wonderfully surprising line by Mrs. Weasley
> to Beallatrix about "Not my
> daughter BIT....", was very close to a line from one of the Alien
> movies by Sigourney Weaver with
> her character Ripley stating to the queen alien, "Stay away from
> her (Newt) BIT....
>
> I am not sure if I saw it here, but if so I apologize, check out on
> YouTube, the Harry Potter
> Puppets, very cute.
>
> Vicki Kouchnerkavich
> Henika District Library (AW)
> Youth Services Supervisor
> 149 S. Main St.
> Wayland, MI 49348
> 269-792-2891
>
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Received on Fri 03 Aug 2007 09:56:21 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:56:21 -0400
Oh, I definitely think that Snape wanted the last thing he saw to be Lily's eyes--I picked up on that, too. I also think by saying "look at me," he also wanted Harry to finally _see_ him, to understand him. Snape saved Harry's life over and over, and Harry continually brushed this aside. Snape was running incredible risks for Lily's son's sake, and all it ever got him was Harry and the Professors at Hogwarts calling him
"coward" and "murderer." The only person who knew what Snape was really up to was dead, and Snape desperately needed both to communicate Dumbledore's message and to finally set the record straight.
As far as other lines in the book being similar to other bits of pop culture, I think that's just because the situations are similar. I don't think one really goes to Rowling for great prose style; I think one goes to Rowling for a compelling story and her amazing ability to deliver emotional sucker punches.
--Amy Goldschlager Freelance writer/editor NYC
----- Original Message ----- From: WAY Vicki Kouchnerkavich <wayvk at henikalibrary.org> Date: Friday, August 3, 2007 10:38 am Subject: [CCBC-Net] Harry Potter 7 comment To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu
> I would like to comment on HP7 and Harry's relationship with Snape
> and how JK Rowling chose to tie
> this up.
>
> I was actually discussing this with another library staff member
> and she pointed out when Snape was
> dying and said to Harry "Potter look at me" or something to that
> effect (I don't have the book in
> front me) that Snape wanted the last thing he saw in this life was
> Lilly's eye (via Harry). I
> certainly did not pick up on that thought and if that is what the
> author intended, it was a
> significant line in the story.
>
> My 28 year son also picked up on several lines in this book, that
> he recalled hearing
> similar "lines" before. And I don't mean to discredit Rowling,
> these are just comments. There is
> a line by Albus Dumbledore with Harry about those not seeking
> power, having it thrust upon them.
> My son heard a line in the TV series Deep Space 9 and in a
> Shakespeare play using the power and
> thrust terms. Then the wonderfully surprising line by Mrs. Weasley
> to Beallatrix about "Not my
> daughter BIT....", was very close to a line from one of the Alien
> movies by Sigourney Weaver with
> her character Ripley stating to the queen alien, "Stay away from
> her (Newt) BIT....
>
> I am not sure if I saw it here, but if so I apologize, check out on
> YouTube, the Harry Potter
> Puppets, very cute.
>
> Vicki Kouchnerkavich
> Henika District Library (AW)
> Youth Services Supervisor
> 149 S. Main St.
> Wayland, MI 49348
> 269-792-2891
>
> _______________________________________________
> CCBC-Net mailing list
> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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