[HPforGrownups] Re: Hurt-Comfort and reader crushes

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 39213

Elkins wrote:
> 
> I do think that the hurt-comfort dynamic is probably what has made 
> Snape, Sirius and Lupin all so very *popular* as crush objects, but 
> obviously there can be (and are) lots of people who are attracted to 
> them on other grounds as well.

I was thinking and thinking and soul-searching and the conclusion is
 - no, it's not hurt-comfort or angst that attracts me to Snape.
I find him the most attractive when he is on top of the things -
like blasting Lockhart or for once really scaring Harry with
veritaserum threat.
The scene with the most hurt-comfort potential, the ending of PoA,
does not fill me with desire to give him hug and make it all better, nope.
The only desire I have at this particular moment is to be as far away
from him as possible. :-)

> And human nature being what it is, there probably are people out there
> who have a thing for Neville (or for Hagrid, or for Moody, or for 
> whomever) in spite of these characters' disqualifying 
> characteristics.  Hey, for all I know, there could even be someone 
> out there who lusts after Pettigrew.  People can be very, uh, diverse 
> that way.  I'm just making broad sweeping generalizations here.  ;-)

Nothing will surprise me after I've learnt about the following Lucius has.

Irene