S/D (Was: setting the cat down

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No: HPFGUIDX 2009

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

You could hypothesize Lucius and Snape being lovers, and Lucius acts 
as Snape's introduction into the Death Eaters. (I somehow see Lucius 
as older than the Snape/James/etc. group.) Or Snape joins the DEs and 
meets Lucius that way. Either way, there's some good speculation 
fodder there -- not to mention the fanfic.

>his nastiness could result ffrom his bitterness and his bitterness 
>COULD result from being a gay person with intense internalized 
>homophobia <snip> another variant attributes Snape's hostility to 
>James making him feel lusts that he is trying very hard not to feel. 

Especially if the wizarding world's attitudes are anything like the 
larger Muggle society's. Who knows what kind of problems Snape would 
face if he were out of the closet?

>An affair with Draco (a few years ahead, when Draco is older) might 
>turn both of them into nicer people.
Nah. No chance. <g>

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