As much as I hate to admit it, you probably have a point there. However, JKR for a long time - six books, actually - left us in the dark about Severus' role in the cast. I think many of us used that uncertainty to imagine him the complex character he seemed rather than the symbol JKR had planned him to be, so it came as a shock.
And I must say, there was room for characters in the first six books. Only the last one was all about the action, the situations into which she forced the characters.
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However, JKR for a long time - six books, actually - left us in the dark about Severus' role in the cast. I think many of us used that uncertainty to imagine him the complex character he seemed rather than the symbol JKR had planned him to be, so it came as a shock.
And I must say, there was room for characters in the first six books. Only the last one was all about the action, the situations into which she forced the characters.