What's going on under Snape's robes (longish)

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 74753

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "subrosax99" <subrosax at e...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lisa G 
<happybluebirdie at y...> 
> wrote:
>  
> > He /had/ to frolic as a kid, I'm sure he was out collecting all
> > the crawlies for him to start learning potions. Bringing in all
> > sorts of slimy and tentacled thingies, dissecting them, leaving
> > leetle bitty entrails on the polished white tile kitchen
> > counter, hearing the screams of Mommy Snape to "get in here this
> > INSTANT and clean up this mess, you KNOW that salamander bile
> > stains the grout!" The neighborhood girls chasing down little
> > Sevvie Snape to give his greasy hair a VO5 treatment and put it
> > in pigtails, holding him down for the avocado mask....
> > 
> 
> I guess that sort of counts as frolicking. Not exactly a scene out 
> of "The Sound of Music", but probably as close as little Snape 
ever 
> got. Oh, how different things could have been for poor Severus if 
> Frauelein Maria had turned up at his dark doorstep with a guitar! 
I 
> bet she would have fixed him up with some "play robes" made out of 
> old drapes, and taken him out for a gambol in the countryside. 
There 
> wouldn't have been a fly situation in the house either, for no 
proper 
> Austrian would abide that level of unsanitation!!
> 
> Allyson

In the spirit of true frivolity and given that his family seemed to 
have been somewhat "old fashioned" I will add that he actually 
frolicked in a "Little Lord Fauntleroy" velvet suit.  He also had 
curls to his shoulders.  In fact... (getting into my stride now)... 
it was an idyllic golden lit english childhood passed in the Snape 
Country home, which was a tudor manor house with extensive gardens 
and a stream at the bottom of the garden and a lake with an island 
on it, like in "Swallows and Amazons", oh and mountains in the 
distance and a home farm, tenanted by trusty retainers....

Sigh...

Until dad took to the Firewhiskey, lost all their money in a magical 
speculation on portkey shares and they had to go and live in that 
grotty flat in Clapham...

And then dad's drinking got worse...

And so on, ad infinitum.

June