Snape's ipod (was: Staff's Activities (was:Re: Snape's Speech patterns)

[krista7]

Per List Elf suggestion, I'm switching groups to OT for this thread. (It's too much fun to 
abandon!)

I did ask what music Snape has on his iPod originally as a joke, 
but because this is fun, I'm going to run with it:

Betsy Hp:

>But I will say the idea of Hogwarts being totally without music is 
>rather horrifying, personally. Especially when JKR appears to want 
>to paint the WW as home to all that is creative and individual, 
>while Muggles are more bland and generic. (Dumbledore vs. Dursley)


Okay, I've figured out a way for Snape to be a proud iPod owner. 
Of the people who make the most creative/innovative lists (Time, I think,
just did one a few weeks ago), Steve Jobs of Apple is always present. 
As a rabid Mac fan (I won't preach here; I'm just stating my bias), I 
have to say, if anybody big in today's culture is really a wizard, it's got to
be Steve Jobs. Heck, there's even an authorized Harry Potter special 
edition iPod. (It contains all of the HP books as audiobook downloads 
and has an engraving of the Hogwarts crest on the back.) So I think 
SJ is a wizard and iPods are magical, therefore Snape can have one. 
Especially since the iPod nano comes in black. (The old U2 Special 
Edition did, too, but I have a feeling Snape would be a bit torn about
that iPod. There's red on it, Gryffindor red, for one, and two, he might 
like Bono's rock-star-does-good shtick, but he'd probably think him too
goody-goody.) My hunch is he got an iPod mini before, on one of his 
bad days (perhaps even Dumbledore got it for him, in which case, he'd
probably have had a shiny green iPod mini, with something godawful 
like "You Light Up My Life" on it, and a *lot* of Jimmy Buffet), and 
now he's got a glossy black nano.

As for his music: I love the brooding rock teenager idea. (In this case,
we should ask Dan Radcliffe what he'd have, since DR is supposedly
going through the rock phase.) Don't forget, he'll have some Bowie, too! 
And I would suggest Snape's iPod also has more modern rock, too: 
"Take Me Out," by Franz Ferdinand, for example.

And a few interesting odds and ends: "I Will Survive," 
"My Way," (guilty pleasure) "All By Myself," "Fly Away," 
"An Innocent Man." Definitely no "Oops, I Did It Again." 

And I'm sure at least one of the Hogwarts staff figured out how 
to put "I'm Just Wild About Harry" on it. :P

Krista