Grey laundry

[subrosax99]

No: HPFGUIDX 76647

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
> > <june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> > > I think we are reading too much into all this - let's face it 
it 
> > > would have totally destroyed his image if he'd had "a dazzling 
> > white 
> > > freshly laundered and starched nightshirt" or "silk pyjamas and 
> a 
> > > maroon silk dressing gown" or "bikini scanties".  He may crave 
> good 
> > > nightwear and underwear the way I crave good red wine of a 
> night, 
> > > but he's is just not going to cut it as the resident spooky guy 
> if 
> > > he dresses up better.  My own advice to him would be that black 
> > > undies and nightwear would improve his image a helluva lot - 
and 
> > > would go with all his other black stuff.  
> > > 
> > > Just a thought.
> > > 
> > > June
> > > 
> > Laura:
> > 
> > Oh my.  The image of Snape in binikis does not bear thinking 
> about.  
> > Well, maybe if you're a Snape fan.  But still...where do wizards 
> get 
> > their lingerie anyhow?  *blushes and grins*
> 
> I am a Snape fan, but I feel overlong contemplation of some of the 
> above thoughts requires an exceptionally diseased imagination.
> 
> Damn, my exceptionally good visuals are working way way too well 
> tonight.
> 
> June
> 
> (Mops brow, contemplates cold shower, followed by long lie down in 
> very darkened room counting imaginary hedgehogs to ward off 
> unwelcome imagery)
> 
> "It is a comfort in wretchedness to have companions in woe"
> 
> Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus


When I first read the infamous "underwear scene", all I could think 
was "please God, let him NOT be wearing those hideous euro-trash 
bikini underpants!" I prefer to think of Snape as a boxer man. One 
can only hope that the traumatic humiliation he received at the hands 
of the Marauders at least motivated him to ditch those manky grey 
drawers in favor of something a bit...cleaner.

As for the nightshirt, I always pictured it as being similar to this 
awful thing I was given to wear when I was staying in East Berlin. 
(Back when it was still part of the Evil Empire.) It was distinctly 
greying, with one sleeve slightly shorter than the other. It had 
clearly never come into contact with anything remotely resembling 
fabric softener and though it was clean, it smelled very 
institutional. In other words, right up Snape's alley. 

I think I'll go put on some Barry White records and dream about Snape 
and his Stalinist lingerie. I'll contact a mental health facility in 
the morning.

Allyson