Severus Snape, Sex God of Slytherin (was Snape is NOT Sexy)

[Kathryn Cawte]

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  Sarah somewhat bravely 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.

Now me -

Firstly - I can't claim to be one of those who found him sexy before I saw
the film - but that's because the film was my introdution to the Potterverse
 But, with the exception of that delicious voice of his, Alan Rickman is
about as far from sexy as I've ever seen him in this role. Snape on the
other hand is irresistable.

I'll repeat some of what others have said about him. He's clearly passionate
 at least about potions (and to someone like me who can talk passionately
about her own pet interests no matter how boring others find them that's a
selling point). He's intelligent (major selling point for me, I could never
be attracted to someone stupid) and not just academically. It shows in his
turn of phrase in class, especially when he's being deeply unpleasant to
someone - and since he's mainly being unpleasant to the Gryffindors I don't
care so much about that. I think everyone else does favour them (at least
over Slytherin - we don't see enough of the other 2 houses to say either
way). He has a certain flair for the dramatic (waiting until the perfect
moment to announce his presence to Ron and Harry in CoS for a start). He's
mysterious - we really know nothing certain about his past except for 1 - he
was a Death Eater at some point and 2 - he managed to do something that
pissed Sirius off enough to try and feed him to a werewolf (which far
outweighs verbally abusing your students in my book as a reason to hate
someone and yet Sirius is almost universally accepted as sexy). He's
courageous - showing his Dark Mark off to make a point, betraying Voldemor
(for whatever reason), actually following *Remus* back into the Shrieking
Shack on the night of a full moon, knowing he hasn't taken his potion.
Personally I think if a werewolf had nearly eaten me I would have no desire
to go back to the scene of the incident, even 20 years later, but especially
at night, on a full moon and knowing that the werewolf in question was in
there too.

What  I don't think anyone has mentioned is that he is powerful and
compelling (you might hate him but you can't look away, sort of like a car
crash <g>). I think he must be magically powerful to have been close to
Voldemort at such a young age (and I think he must have been close to him to
have been summoned at the end of GoF, unless Voldemort summoned *all* his
DEs in which case he's rather understrength). Not to mention I don't think
anyone in the magic world can excel at their discipline to the extent that
Snape is without being magically powerful. And that kind of power can be one
heck of an aphrodisiac.

Besides I have a thing for the Slytherins as a whole (not that I think they
re all sexy by any means).

So yes Snape is sexy (don't you think he'd just hate to be called that?)

K