S/D (Was: setting the cat down

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1955

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "storm stanford" <msmacgoo at h...> 
wrote:
> I don't think dumbledore is single.I think he and snape are cosy 
buddies who care for each other very much 

I very much doubt that Snape and Dumbledore are a couple, because 
Snape (whom, we all know, doesn't bother to conceal his feelings) 
is never seen fawning on Dumbledore. He is, however, often seen 
fawning on Draco (which is the S/D I could believe in). We don't 
really know why Snape makes such a pet of Draco, whether simply 
because he is a Slytherin who is good at Potions, or in order to 
curry favor with Lucius, or because he hates Harry, or my friend Lee 
urged me to write an S/D to explain this favoritism. I believe that 
is not a complete explanation: Draco is a handsome blond, but when he 
first arrives at school, he is *only eleven* -- not hardly grown 
enough to fall in love with him for  his looks! Except, since he 
looks like little Lucius, if it were a side-effect of being in love 
with Lucius.

For political correctness, I don't want to make Snape gay, because he 
is such a nasty guy, a bad image, but for literary correctness, his 
nastiness could result ffrom his bitterness and his bitterness COULD 
result from being a gay person with intense internalized homophobia 
-- while the variant of the Snape-loved-James theory that attributes 
Snape's hostility to James having rebuffed Snape's tentative and 
inept advances is just fine, another variant attributes Snape's 
hostility to James making him feel lusts that he is trying very hard 
not to feel. An affair with Draco (a few years ahead, when Draco is 
older) might turn both of them into nicer people.

Mention has been made of the fanfic 'Draco Dormiens', which I enjoyed 
very much. The author not only came up with an unusually plausible 
way to turn Draco to the Light Side, but the reformed Draco (the 
characters are all age 16 in this story) is, if not the sexiest thing 
on two legs, at any rate sexier than anyone under the age of consent 
(which is 18 here is California) has any right to be. Blond good 
looks, vicious tongue, strong ability to conceal his true emotions, 
and far more insight into what make people tick psychologically 
than *I* had at 16! Are any of the older 'girls' on this list
reminded of Ilya Kuryakin?