{"id":6260,"date":"2015-11-28T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2015-11-29T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T12:09:25","slug":"rowling-takes-to-twitter-to-talk-about-snape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/rowling-takes-to-twitter-to-talk-about-snape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowling takes to Twitter to talk about Snape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/J.K.-Rowling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5365\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/J.K.-Rowling.jpg\" alt=\"J.K. Rowling\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>Harry Potter readers have long wanted to know: Why did the boy wizard choose to honor Severus Snape \u2014 a teacher who had been so mean to him?<br \/>\nAuthor JK Rowling took to Twitter to answer the enduring question on Friday in an exchange with a fan who asked why one of Harry\u2019s children received the middle name of Severus.<br \/>\nThe acclaimed author explained that Harry paid tribute to Snape because of \u201cforgiveness and gratitude.\u201d<br \/>\nThough Snape bullied Harry, he also saved him.<br \/>\nRowling says that by honoring Snape, \u201cHarry hoped in his heart that he too would be forgiven. The deaths at the Battle of Hogwarts would haunt Harry forever.\u201d<br \/>\nRowling\u2019s seven Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies and been made into eight films.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/rowling-takes-to-twitter-to-talk-about-snape\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter readers have long wanted to know: Why did the boy wizard choose to honor Severus Snape \u2014 a teacher who had been so mean to him? Author JK Rowling took to Twitter to answer the enduring question on Friday in an exchange with a fan who asked why one of Harry\u2019s children received &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,27],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}