[HPforGrownups] Snape in love (and Imperio curse)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3520

Diogo Miguel Preto Mena Reis wrote:

>         About this issue, from what I read here of the interview, it's
> very unlikely to happen. It seems like if JKR doesn't intend to change his
> character much and wouldn't it be changing a "little", making Snape a
> lover? Would you see the same evil sadistic teacher flirting on
> McGonagall, offering some magical romantic flowers?

We have seen very little of Snape outside the classroom or in other
administrative postures. We *have* seen good evidence that there's a strong
poetic side to him. I've had evil sadistic teachers who had entire home lives
with no sadism involved. We simply don't know anything about Snape that hasn't
been filtered through the perceptions of a teenage boy who is a student of
his, doesn't like him, and doesn't know all the repercussions of the immediate
history of the new world he inhabits.

--Amanda