Comments on: St. Severus’ Feast Day: June 27/July 10

By: Brigid Courtney

Brigid Courtney — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:01:26 +0000

St. Severus is definitely on my list as a Saint to pray to. I Believe Snape to be a Christ symbol.

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:28:40 +0000

Saint or not, Snape will be on the side of the Order in the end. Since GoF, Snape has had to periodically face Voldemort. He could not make it obvious that he was hiding memories from Voldemort or he would be dead. So, he has had to be careful to be totally nasty and abusive towards any enemies of Voldemort including Harry, Neville, and Sirius. His own survival depends making these memories!

By: bubbygirl1972

bubbygirl1972 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:19:53 +0000

I’m going to be up all night reading this blog.

this is just wonderful.

maria

By: mary

mary — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:12:59 +0000

John, I have, in fact, argued that Severus is a saint. I thought I’d offered to send you those papers? However, I wasn’t arguing from any precedent, but merely from what I’d observed in the books themselves. This hymn is really fascinating! Thanks for posting it.

(Actually, Swythyv’s recent “Severus as phoenix” essay shows him as a saint of sorts, IMHO. It’s quite brilliant, and what she points out is also right there in the text.)

By: Arabella Figg

Arabella Figg — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:29:43 +0000

My metaphorical see-saw on “if you think it’s butter, but it’s not”/Snape has dug holes in the ground at both ends.

Churned, whipped or cubed, whatever Snape is, I believe he will be considered one of the most intruiging characters of 21st century literature, if not the ages.

And without one gram of trans-fat!

Got to give the kitties their hairball lube….

By: Travis Prinzi

Travis Prinzi — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:58:50 +0000

Indeed, John, it would. And perhaps it would do a good deal for our prejudices to have a thoroughly unlikable, nasty character like Snape turn out to be a saint! How often are we the Pharisee, happy we are not “like this tax collector,” and how much would a Holy!Snape rattle our preconceived notions of redemption and goodness? That, indeed, would be a story we theologians would adore.

By: JOdel

JOdel — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:54:19 +0000

Interesting.

But I will have to admit that I am a bit more impressed to learn that one of the several days attributed to the Feast of Janus is January 9, the very day that Rowling has assigned for Snape’s birthday.

Janus, the *two-faced* god of the Romans, is the patron God of openings, of gateways, the Lord of endings and beginnings, he whose favor must be petitioned for an auspicious start (and end) of all enterprises. According to the Romans, should an enterprise go awry, then it must be started over from the beginning, with a *fresh* start, for there is no sure recovery of a lost situation.

I am mildly astonished that the fans have not made more of that information. But they seem to have cast their eyes across the Mediterranean and are determinedly squinting at the Anubis archetype.