[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's oily hair, depression, insomnia

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 37210

Porphyria:

> Snape is not an insomniac. He does not *make a habit* of prowling the 
> school late at night, if by late at night you mean after the time at 
> which you would expect a grown man to go to bed. I've been combing the 
> canon for an essay I'm writing and I can back this claim up. If anyone 
> would like to dispute me on this I will post a very LOONy list of 
> Snape-encounters with notes on the time of day. :-) If there *is* a 
> professor who is afflicted with insomnia, that honor would have to go to 
> McGonagall (maybe she's the real vampire! <*cough*>).
> 
I'm really disappointed now. You've completely destroyed the premise of my 
very first FILK. Never mind, I put LOLLIPOPS into that and I don't believe in 
that either. I quite believe you. But it's interesting that that's the 
impression we (well, the less attentive of us) tend to get, isn't it? And he 
really *ought* to be an insomniac with all the stuff he's got inside his 
head. How can he be tortured and angst-ridden and in mourning etc and *not* 
insomniac? Of course, maybe he is, in the confines of his dungeon, we don't 
know that. If he *can* sleep, I want to know why! (Boring answer, sleeping 
potion; worrying answer, a lack of conscience).
I enjoyed the rest of your post, BTW.

Eloise (refusing to rise to the teeth comment!)


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