I never actually read HP until the end (I dropped it around book 5 for reasons I've forgotten at this point) but I think it makes sense in Snape's case. It's more the revisionism that fans sometimes do to characters where they pretend that the worst things they do didn't happen, and while I'm fine with someone who says they like and sympathize with character x even though he did bad things y and z I draw the line when they pretend y and z didn't happen. Fanfic is something different, I more when they go after the author themselves.
The character in question isn't someone I hate per se, but she did a lot of unforgivable things (abusing a child for 10 years chief among them) and though I can't speak for the creator I know what annoys me about the people who are fighting with him is that they tend to ignore that part or try to justify it so she wasn't at fault for it, even though the entire point of that story arc is about taking responsibility for what you do. This updated version didn't really change the sequence of events, it just showed the perspective of the kid more clearly and made the motivations of the person who abused her more obvious (long story short she took out her frustration on someone who didn't deserve it and made an enemy out of her when she could have gained an ally). Part of the reason he did it was to make what happened later make more sense (this earlier version was written in 2003 and needed some updating anyway).
But yeah, I get that the author can't control how people interpret the characters, but when they go against the facts of what really happened because it doesn't fit their version is when I start to wonder about entitlement..
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The character in question isn't someone I hate per se, but she did a lot of unforgivable things (abusing a child for 10 years chief among them) and though I can't speak for the creator I know what annoys me about the people who are fighting with him is that they tend to ignore that part or try to justify it so she wasn't at fault for it, even though the entire point of that story arc is about taking responsibility for what you do. This updated version didn't really change the sequence of events, it just showed the perspective of the kid more clearly and made the motivations of the person who abused her more obvious (long story short she took out her frustration on someone who didn't deserve it and made an enemy out of her when she could have gained an ally). Part of the reason he did it was to make what happened later make more sense (this earlier version was written in 2003 and needed some updating anyway).
But yeah, I get that the author can't control how people interpret the characters, but when they go against the facts of what really happened because it doesn't fit their version is when I start to wonder about entitlement..