At 05:49 AM 1/5/03 -0500, you wrote:
>What are some of the strangest pairings you've seen? My top one has to be
>Lucius/Draco...yes...Lucius Malfoy and Draco Malfoy. While the idea of an
>incestuous relationship is a little..um..0_o; The fanfic I read with this
>pairing was actually very beautiful.
Which one? I've seen a fair bit of L/D, and it's ranged from
downright disturbing (and not in a good way) to so believable it's
scary. It also goes well with the theory that Lucius is a, ah, somewhat
less than doting father - sexual abuse as punishment, or as a general
extension of Draco's usual treatment. I mean, let's face it: neither
incest nor pederasty is historically unheard of among the upper classes,
and given Lucius' background and temperament it probably wouldn't be a huge
stretch for him to combine the two.
>Then there's the Snape/Harry pairing. Snape/Lupin. Snape/Black.
>Snape/McGonagall. Snape/Hermione.
>
>Snape really gets around, doesn't he?
Oh, trust me, you haven't seen the half of
it. http://www.societyhappens.com/sushi if you *really* want to burn your
eyeballs on the Snape pairings. If nothing else, the list in the
description for _In Academia_ should give you nightmares. (I swear, a lot
of these were written on, essentially, a dare.)
I think a lot of the fascination with pairing Snape with... well,
I've seen everything from Harry and Hagrid to Ollivander and Fluffy... is
the fact that he's a mysterious character with a shady past and obvious
unusual traits (such as the cool use of logic amongst a bunch of flighty
wizards - I can appreciate that trait; even my painfully rational, logical,
technical husband tells me to just give it a rest). This makes him stand
out, even in a society of, as Petunia put it, "freaks".
Now, I know the school of thought here is divided between "greasy
git", "dark reluctant angel (of sorts)", and "dead sexy". I, personally,
think he's sexy. (I also think Voldemort is sexy. YMMV.) However, it
also digs into the mystery about him: why he's still teaching when he
obviously hates it with a vengeance, why Dumbledore trusts him so
implicitly, what he was doing running around with those loons in masks in
the first place. He's a complex character, and it's irresistible to delve
into his psyche. This just happens to include, well, sex. He's adult,
he's most likely human, he's male. Unless he's been ignoring some of his
cauldron safety equipment, it's a factor that, in the right situation,
should be taken into account. (This isn't to say that, in the middle of a
chat with Minerva over finals, he's going to suddenly think, "Cor, nice set
o' jugs on 'er!" This is about as UN-Snapelike as it would be possible to
get. No offence to Minerva.)
I know this isn't everyone's schtick, but I happen to see it as a
good setting for exploring his hypothetical mentality. Sex, when written
as something other than sex (for example, from the standpoint of a business
transaction - very Machiavellian way to do things), can trigger little
ideas about what a character is thinking that you might not normally come
up with. Sex, when written as sex in one or more of its multitude of
forms, can serve the same purpose. (Sorry this is unclear. It's 5:30 in
the morning and I'm about to pass out on my keyboard. *sheepish
grin*) Snape is such a mystery that any possible way to get into his head
is going to be explored.
Hmm. Can you tell my fics are plot-oriented? ;)
Okay, rant over. I'm goin' to bed.
Sushi, rabid Snape/Harry and Snape/Voldemort shipper (trust me, it *is*
possible to make them work)
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