I do think that Snape is a textbook example of Alice Miller's abused-child-who-becomes-the-abuser, and I'm pretty sure that JKR did that deliberately. But I still think that Harry is more like Ender, mainly because you do see a lot of instances of a pure heart being attributed to Harry, even when he's done things that seem fairly malicious; whereas with Snape, in the Worst Memory Scene, just when Rowling has thoroughly established James as a jerk and Snape as a victim, she has him call Lily a mudblood, which I think is supposed to prevent us from seeing him as totally innocent even though he is the innocent in relative terms in this one scene.
In fanon, though, you definitely see a lot of the Ender-style, pure-intentions, everything-he's-done-is-justified-by-the-pain-he's-been-through Snape. Probably no one is totally immune to the appeal of seeing a character they identify with portrayed that way at least once, unless they're totally immune to the attraction of revenge fantasies at all.
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Date: 2006-11-30 09:29 pm (UTC)In fanon, though, you definitely see a lot of the Ender-style, pure-intentions, everything-he's-done-is-justified-by-the-pain-he's-been-through Snape. Probably no one is totally immune to the appeal of seeing a character they identify with portrayed that way at least once, unless they're totally immune to the attraction of revenge fantasies at all.