Re: There. I Said It.
(Anonymous)
I was going to mention Austen but as she is even older than Heyer, I thought my point would be self evident. Omar Khayyam did live 900 years ago, his poem is timeless and the point even more so.
My point still remains. When Snape was a very young man he acted like a bigot. Please not the stress in my words, he acted like a bigot. I am not saying he felt that way deep down, how can I? I don't have a window to see into his soul. That was a quote from Elizabeth the First, 600 hundred yeas ago. I can't prove one way not another what was in Snape's heart at that time, niether can you, so in many ways it is irrellevent. Our pasts remain what they are and that includes Snape's. No one can change the past and we all can see it. We can read Austin, Omar Khayyam, and Georgette Heyer and we can read what they believed to be the truth in their words. We can read Snape's voice as it was when he was twenty and he said racial epithets. What we can also read is that later in his life he did not want that word spoken in his presence. Is this not a fair representation of what is in the books? Does my dislike of how Snape acts towards the children in his care change his actions in how he strived to defeat a great evil?
summeriris
My point still remains. When Snape was a very young man he acted like a bigot. Please not the stress in my words, he acted like a bigot. I am not saying he felt that way deep down, how can I? I don't have a window to see into his soul. That was a quote from Elizabeth the First, 600 hundred yeas ago. I can't prove one way not another what was in Snape's heart at that time, niether can you, so in many ways it is irrellevent. Our pasts remain what they are and that includes Snape's. No one can change the past and we all can see it. We can read Austin, Omar Khayyam, and Georgette Heyer and we can read what they believed to be the truth in their words. We can read Snape's voice as it was when he was twenty and he said racial epithets. What we can also read is that later in his life he did not want that word spoken in his presence. Is this not a fair representation of what is in the books? Does my dislike of how Snape acts towards the children in his care change his actions in how he strived to defeat a great evil?
summeriris