How we picture characters

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

"dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at ...> wrote in 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/30957>:

<<[Rickman]'s too old, he's not tall enough, and 
he's not spiky enough. >>

Even tho' the *text* of canon keeps saying that Snape is a tall, thin
wizard with long, slender/bony fingers, my mind has always seen him as
not unusually tall or thin. I imagine tall characters, like
Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy, and 16-year-old Draco Malfoy as distinctly
taller than him, and he stands visually on par with them by sheer
dignity and power.