Snape and Hygiene

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No: HPFGUIDX 11465

When critiquing Snape's grooming I think we should take his profession
into account.  As a potions master he spends all day slaving over a
steaming hot cauldron in a room (an underground room, likely to be
poorly ventilated) full of steaming hot cauldrons.  In these cauldrons
are boiling, among other things, a variety of animal parts which
themselves are likely to be rather greasy.

Under circumstances such as these a man will perspire.  Since he does
it for a large part of the day, Snape's hair is bound to suffer the
natural side effects.  Since he is an intellectual and a professional,
I suspect he spends a lot of his out-of-class time on research as
well.

marvin