[HPforGrownups] The inner Snape /SHIP McGonagall

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 76920


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
 
> I thought I detected a certain warmth in his reunion with 
McGonagall 
> at the end of OotP....(snip) seemed to me rather playful. I 
definitely 
> got the feeling they were teasing each other; in the earlier books, 
> they were primarily school colleagues, and shared the 
> competitiveness between their houses. Now, they share more 
> important things, and this business of points gained and lost is 
> recognized by both to be rather trifling in the long run. > 

 
CW's horrified thought:
 
Perhaps this is the married couple at Hogwarts that has been 
anticipated ??? No, I have just come to my senses, she is supposed to 
be 70+ and Snape is in his mid-30s. Phew.........
 
Me -

I agree that they seem close - I think they're probably good friends under
it all. The quidditch rivalry seemed more like friendly rivalry than the
inter-house *hate* we see from the kids.

Personally I don't think they're married *but* you have to remember that
while 70 seems old to us muggles in wizarding terms she's middle-aged. 70-35
is really only the same age gap as a woman in her mid thirties with a guy in
his early twenties (not that it corresponds exactly because while they seem
to age slower/live longer Snape is of course a lot more experienced than
most twenty year olds - reading that back I did *not* mean what that sounds
like, get your minds out of the gutter <g>). Probably unusual but not
unheard of and not really icky. I don't get that feel from them - although I
wouldn't be overly shocked if they did turn out to be married. I get more of
friendship vibe coming from them. Since McGonagall would have taught Snape I
think that says something about him that she can treat him as an equal in
the way she seems to. While I wouldn't expect her to deliberately look down
on him/patronise him it wouldn't be surprising for her still to vaguely see
him as he was at school (although they have had quite a few years to get
beyond that)

K