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Because he's far better than Luna objectively, and in my eyes he's subjectively better too. Used to love Luna but after her gimmick got stale I liked her less and less with every read. My opinion of Snape only grows more positive and the film portrayal of Snape by Alan Rickman is the best of the film series hands down. I don't think anyone could've been better cast.
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I will admit complete and utter bias in this case. Luna is a personal favourite of mine, and I will now proceed to quote her a whole bunch.
The girl gave off an aura of distinct dottiness. Perhaps it was the fact that she had her wand stuck behind her left ear for safekeeping, or that she had chosen to wear a necklace of Butterbeer corks, or that she was reading a magazine upside-down.
"You went to the Yule Ball with Padma Patil," said a vague voice. "She didn't enjoy it very much," Luna informed him. "She doesn't think you treated her very well, because you wouldn't dance with her. I don't think I'd have minded," she added thoughtfully, "I don't like dancing very much." She retreated behind the Quibbler again. Ron stared at the cover with his mouth hanging open for a few seconds, then looked around at Gunny for some kind of explanation, but Ginny had stuffed her knuckles in her mouth to stop herself from giggling.
Everyone laughed, but nobody laughed harder than Luna Lovegood. She let out a scream of myrth that caused Hedwig to wake up and flap her wings indignantly and Crookshanks to leap up into the luggage rack, hissing. Luna laughed so hard her magazine slipped out of her grasp, slid down her legs and on to the floor. "That was funny!" Her prominent eyes swam with tears as she gasped for breath, staring at Ron. Utterly nonplussed, he looked around at the others, who were now laughing at the expression on Ron's face, and at the ludicrously prolonged laughter of Luna Lovegood, who was rocking backwards and forwards, clutching her sides. "Are you taking the mickey?" said Ron, frowning at her. "Baboon's...backside!" she chocked, holding her ribs.
"...They've always pulled the carriages. Don't worry, you're just as sane as I am"
Luna did not seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme.
Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head. When she saw Harry, her prominent eyes seemed to bulge excitedly and she made a beeline straight for him. Many of his classmates turned curiously to watch. Luna took a great breath and then said, without so much as a preliminary hello, "I believe He Who Must Not Be Named is back and I believe you fought him and escaped from him." "Er, right," Harry said awkwardly. Luna was wearing what looked like a pair of orange radishes for earrings, a fact that Parvati and Lavender seemed to have noticed, as they were both giggling and pointing at her earlobes. "You can laugh," Luna said, her voice rising, apparently under the impression that Parvati and Lavender were laughing wat what she had said rather than what she was wearing, "but people used to believe that there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack" "Well they were right, weren't they?" said Hermione impatiently. "There weren't any such things as the Blibbering Hummdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!" Luna gave her a withering look and flounced away, radishes swinging madly. Parvati and Lavender were not the only ones hooting with laughter now.
Man, I'm already nearing 4k, and I'm like...30 pages after the introduction of Luna. So much good stuff.
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Luna by far. Luna is a legitimately great character, definitely top 4, and if she had more screen time she'd probably be #1 easily. Snape is just not that great. He's a jerk, he's mean to kids for no good reason, and his actions are kind of contrived just to keep you guessing which side he's on. He's just not that well written... JKR seems to think he was supposed to be a sympathetic character (or at least redeemed) based on Harry naming a son after him, but being on the good side really doesn't balance out an entire series of being an ass.
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Don't get to post my "Why Harry is Awesome" rant. Yesterday was my anniversary or else I'd have posted it!
Anyway... Snape is overrated. He's a bully. And there's not really much more to his character.
You know the old excuse. "Snape only bullies Harry because he looks like James!" well, there's too many problems with that:
For one, Snape got James killed. Dumbledore calls him out when Snape asks Voldemort to save Lily. Then Snape goes all "SAVE THEM ALL!". The problem is, he doesn't feel remorse at all for getting James killed. Just Lily. Hell, he got Harry's parents killed. If he felt truly remorseful, would he really be bullying Harry that bad because 'he looks like his dad! Oh and he's successful at quidditch!"
Then you have the fact that he picks on Hermione just as badly.
I'll admit, I do LOVE Alan Rickman's Snape. But Snape in the movies is FAR more sympathetic. You even have the incredible final line "You have your mother's eyes". The movies painted him far more sympathetic than the books did. In the books, he's all "Oh no, don't let them see the best of me! IT MIGHT SPOIL THE SIXTH BOOK ROWLING! I MEAN DUMBLEDORE!:"
Sure, he lies to Voldemort constantly. But I think Narcissa's lie was better. I'd say her redemption overall is better, and it fits her character.
Luna on the other hand... she's not the best character in the series. She's a tad overrated too. But she's entertaining, and LIKABLE. She's also consistent, which is something Snape lacks. As I've said before, Snape never believes in Harry until the 7th book, after Dumbledores death, at which point he's like "You won't tell me why he needs the sword?" Snape's ACTUALLY REASONABLE. And that's not really something we see often out of him. And in the 3rd book he by no means wants to listen to the facts that Pettigrew betrayed his ONE TRUE GREAT LOVE. And instead decides Sirius should pay. Yes, Sirius suggested the switch. But he's still lower on the "To Blame List" than Snape himself. His problem was trusting Pettigrew not to be in Voldemorts' pocket.
As I've said before, it's a little strange, but i like the movies portrayal of Snape better than the books. Though I think that the movie's portray Luna well too. I think Luna needed to appear earlier (and if she had, she might be a Top 10 character in my book, instead I think she's just outside of it).
So in the end, I'm going to have to go with Luna.
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