Red Flags, Red Herrings

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No: HPFGUIDX 19097

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jenfold at y... wrote:
> > > BERTHA JORKIN
> > > Who did Bertha see kissing Florence behind the greenhouse?
> > 
> > Ah....I like this question.  I use to think it was Snape but I 
now 
> > lean toward this being Sirius.  As I stated on the *Snapesfans* 
> site, 
> > Sirius comments at two different times about how nosy Bertha 
was.  
> > Why should Sirius care that Bertha caught him kissing Florence 
> unless 
> > Florence was Snape's girl (or someone else's) and he didn't want 
> > Snape to find out.  As you can tell, I am not a Lily/Snape 
> believer.  
> > Anyway, if Sirius kisses Snape's girl, I don't imagine Snape 
would 
> be 
> > very happy about that.  Also, after that kiss Florence would 
> realize 
> > that there could be no other for her except Severus......the real 
> man 
> > at Hogwarts! 
> >  
> 
> 
>  I've had a very similar thought floating around my head for ages. 
> There just seems to be more going on in the conflict between Sirius 
> and Snape compared to the one between James and Snape in my 
opinion. 
> And an argument over the mysterious Florence had ocured to me too 
> (the Lily thing never happened). Finally someone has the same 
> theories, possibly if I point it out to my friends they'll stop 
> giving me funny looks. 
> 
>  Yay I'm not mad, or perhaps we're both insane.
> 
>  Jen
> 
>  Member of the SAS (Snape appreciation society)

Well, I am not a member of this society. My impression of Snape is of 
an extremely unattractive man, and when I extrapolate to teenage, he 
is even more repulsive. 
Sirius, OTOH, is an extremely attractive man. It is very unlikely , 
therefore, that they both had a thing going with the same girl. 
The way I see it, if Florence had a thing with Snape, Sirius wouldn't 
have touched her with a ten feet pole. If she was attractive enough 
for Sirius, then *she* wouldn't have touched Snape with a twenty feet 
pole. ;-P

Naama, who freely admits she believes in leagues when it comes to sex-
appeal..