Re: the controversial Harry Potter scene.
It is startling how so many people won't believe what his scene emphasises. I can understand young fans not seeing it, or being able, but adults? Snape is Harry's father, no question. The parts of the film that run from Hermione setting up camp and then running into the Snatchers in the first instance, when she is terrified and says, "...he could smell my perfume..." and the moment Ron returns to the camp with the Sword of Gryffindor is a reflection of what happened between Snape, Lily, and James. Important details are then repeated in the second Snatchers encounter, and the torture of Hermione by Bellatrix, and the memory vision Harry sees of Snape saying to Dumbledor, "...she still believes the child is his!" This is because to put it all together would have been too traumatic to recount, let alone what it'd do to the reputation of the films and the fanbase. The difference is that, this time, history did not repeat. The "mistakes" Lily, Severus and James made weren't a generational curse for Harry, Ron, and Hermione. There is no reason for Hermione to be so distraught that "he could smell her perfume" unless... Which makes Snape possibly the most tragic hero of the entire story, and Lily the most complex and untold. Dumbledor wasn't as flawed or as human, and only had to agree to die, like a mythic messiah. Snape had to meet his flaws, realise they couldn't be changed, tear himself apart and the ones he loved, and keep it all to himself to the moment he died.
Re: the controversial Harry Potter scene. It is startling how so many people won't believe what his scene emphasises. I can understand young fans not seeing it, or being able, but adults? Snape is Harry's father, no question. The parts of the film that run from Hermione setting up camp and then running into the Snatchers in the first instance, when she is terrified and says, "...he could smell my perfume..." and the moment Ron returns to the camp with the Sword of Gryffindor is a reflection of what happened between Snape, Lily, and James. Important details are then repeated in the second Snatchers encounter, and the torture of Hermione by Bellatrix, and the memory vision Harry sees of Snape saying to Dumbledor, "...she still believes the child is his!" This is because to put it all together would have been too traumatic to recount, let alone what it'd do to the reputation of the films and the fanbase. The difference is that, this time, history did not repeat. The "mistakes" Lily, Severus and James made weren't a generational curse for Harry, Ron, and Hermione. There is no reason for Hermione to be so distraught that "he could smell her perfume" unless... Which makes Snape possibly the most tragic hero of the entire story, and Lily the most complex and untold. Dumbledor wasn't as flawed or as human, and only had to agree to die, like a mythic messiah. Snape had to meet his flaws, realise they couldn't be changed, tear himself apart and the ones he loved, and keep it all to himself to the moment he died.