Yes, that does seem necessary. It's a black hole, starting to work on things like this.
Hmm... it was more a general observation, in your case. I think our Snapes have, in stories, pulled in quite different directions - which I certainly don't think is a bad thing! I don't have a one true snape as a fic reader at all, I think - I tend to just go with things if the story can make me believe them - but I do have a lot of interpretive tendencies as a writer. I resist canon a lot, obviously, even beyond pairing choice & character death denial. And I tend to want to resist common fan readings, too, which is more about basic curiosity (and contrariness) than anything - well, yes, you could read it like this, but can one also make all the facts fit with reading it like that? I wish I could be specific (it has been pointed out to me that I am horribly secretive and vague, hah) but I seem to be feeling very tangled up right now.
All this said, I also find Snape hideously hard to write, so you know. (I'm trying Harry's POV in my current story, and although it feels as though I'm writing an overly disconnected Snape right now - something I always seem to tend towards when writing an older Snape, even though I don't necessarily think it's a terribly valid interpretation - I think the trick of it is actually in the unreliability of Harry's perceptions, which should be fun to twist around. Hopefully I can also twist my own perceptions around as well and examine them from a different angle, which is part of the point of writing fic for me.)
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Re: Why Snape? - pt III
Date: 2014-02-14 03:37 pm (UTC)Hmm... it was more a general observation, in your case. I think our Snapes have, in stories, pulled in quite different directions - which I certainly don't think is a bad thing! I don't have a one true snape as a fic reader at all, I think - I tend to just go with things if the story can make me believe them - but I do have a lot of interpretive tendencies as a writer. I resist canon a lot, obviously, even beyond pairing choice & character death denial. And I tend to want to resist common fan readings, too, which is more about basic curiosity (and contrariness) than anything - well, yes, you could read it like this, but can one also make all the facts fit with reading it like that? I wish I could be specific (it has been pointed out to me that I am horribly secretive and vague, hah) but I seem to be feeling very tangled up right now.
All this said, I also find Snape hideously hard to write, so you know. (I'm trying Harry's POV in my current story, and although it feels as though I'm writing an overly disconnected Snape right now - something I always seem to tend towards when writing an older Snape, even though I don't necessarily think it's a terribly valid interpretation - I think the trick of it is actually in the unreliability of Harry's perceptions, which should be fun to twist around. Hopefully I can also twist my own perceptions around as well and examine them from a different angle, which is part of the point of writing fic for me.)