Harry's POV was Snape is NOT Sexy

[L Finn]

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I won’t say why I think Snape could be sexy for some people, I think Sushi covered that one well enough...

 

But I am puzzled at this Harry POV mentioned in this thread and others.

 

"As for the books description of Snape, remember that the books are told from Harry's POV. Harry doesn't like Snape so he'll exaggerate 

Snape's physical characteristics. Sure, Snape is definatly not the 

most physically attractive character in the book (greasy hair, big 

nose) but that doesn't mean he's totally, completely ugly. Nobody 

accuses Viktor Krum of being repellant and his physical description 

is reasonably similar to Snape's."  DrMM

 

Sure, the books are Harry centric and we follow Harry about, but it isn’t him describing things.  As something happens it is related to the reader, but not by Harry.  It is athough he’s carrying a video cam about and we get to see what is recorded by it.  

 

The first description given of Ron isn’t overly flattering either, '...tall, thin and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet and a long nose.’ (PS pg 70)  But this isn’t because Harry doesn’t like Ron, it’s because that’s the basics of Ron’s appearance. 

 
So although we see the world that Harry sees, I’m not sure that we can say that descriptions of Snape or of any thing/one else are tainted by Harry’s bias/POV.  Except were we’re told, ‘or so it seemed to Harry,’ or somesuch similar attachment they are just bald descriptions, not Harry’s opinion... Unless that is,  we are also to assume that Snape’s long black cloak is only long and black to Harry, that Hermione’s hair is only bushy in Harry’s opinion and that if we looked with our own eyes Hagrid’s peepers would be pink and Snape’s hair really would be glossy not greasy.   


SS ~;o)

"...little things are infinitely the most important."

 




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