S/D (Was: setting the cat down

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 1997

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- 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?


Interesting. It's pretty clear that JKR has a blind spot about same 
gender relationships, so I doubt that Snape and Dumbledore are 
intimate. 

I also would not like to see Snape as a gay man since he is so 
nasty...(although I have to admit that having Gilderoy Lockhart turn 
out to be gay would be amusing, given all the women who fawned over 
him). Snape COULD be someone who doesn't acknowledge his own 
orientation, and is therefore bitter.....OR James and Sirius could 
have had a school boy affair and Snape could have been jealous!

Susan