Snape is NOT Sexy

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 56399

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "weeoo0" <weeoo0 at y...> wrote:

> 
> SNAPE IS NOT SEXY
> 
> That is correct, Severus Snape, Potions Master Extroardinaire, in 
all
> his deep mysteriousness, in all his complexity, to the very depths 
of
> his possibly tortured soul, vampire or not, good or bad, Severus
> Snape, is not sexy.
> 

 
this was in response to a teeny comment by me:
> melclaros wrote:
> 
> <Look the guy is unpleasant. Fascinating, brilliant and some would 
say 
> sexy as all get out>

that was really a throwaway, but yes, I supposed I'd better admit now 
to those of you who don't know it, I'm one of the "some"

So Sarah continues:
> Sexy as all get out?  How, Why?


And Sarah got LOTS of answers, so many I wasn't going to answer 
myself, just sit back and enjoy the fireworks until I got to THIS:


> 
> Is it fanfiction?  has fanfic created a grey area between canon and
> fanon, 

For me, No, absolutely not. I can count on one hand the number of 
fics I've read, including one I wrote myself specifically for a small 
group of friends and even THAT Snape isn't "my" true Snape.

It's not Rickantamination for me either, because as much as I like 
Alan and enjoy "his" Snape, I started falling for the Potions Master 
at his very first appearance at chapter 8 in SS/PS. In fact I've *re-
read* it so many times our book opens right to this page-US version 
pg 136
I'll skip the beginnig of "the potions speech" because we all know it 
by heart, or should!--and because what *really* caught my attention 
was this: He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught 
every word--"
Well that, my friend, was all she wrote as far as I was concerened. 
The poetry of the introductory speech and the manner in which it was 
delivered whet an appetite for Severus Snape which has yet to be 
sated. I stand by a second line in that earlier posted quote, the one 
in which I claim to believe JKR has a "crush" on Snape herself. The 
way she describes his voice and movements do not, to me describe a 
hated character. The huge amount of TIME she's devoted to him belies 
an affection she herself may not even be aware of. She's endowed him 
with a sense of incredible power being held at bay JUST under a very, 
very thin surface. 
I know I'm also not alone in thinking that so far, the all-time 
sexiest, snapiest line in the series is in PoA in the Shrieking 
Shack..."Give me one reason," he whispered. "Give me a reason to do 
it and I swear I will." 
The sense of restrained power there is incredible--and if we STILL 
don't get the picture, JK allows us a few tempting sparks out of the 
end of his wand.

And there I'll stop...not because I've run out of reasons, but 
because I fear I won't! 
Mel







whereby Snape is now a character of sexual fantasy and
> discourse.  Is Fanfiction to blame?  Or is it merely an outlet?
> 
> I personally feel that Snape is one of my favorite characters.  I 
love
> that he is mean, that he is sarcastic, and bitter, and spiteful, and
> humourless, and dark, and sallow skinned and hooknosed and greasy.  
I
> like that he is horrible to the kids, shows blatant favortism, was a
> DE, but fights for the good.  I Like Snape, he's great!  
> 
> But Sexy?  Certainly NOT!
> 
> Sarah !
> Weeoo0