TBAY (Mild): Slytherin and the Reader -- Sympathy for the Devil vs SYCOPHANTS

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51564

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott Northrup" <snorth at u...> 
wrote:
villains, but me?  Nah.  I always like the villains'
> > *minions* best of all.
> 
> Haha.... actually, I did /not/ mean to imply that Snape is a 
sycophant,
> minion, or toadie.  The real reason I brought it up, is that while 
watching
> The Two Towers, I thought to myself  "Grima looks closer to how I 
imagine to
> Snape.  Alan Rickman's portrayal isn't greasey/sweaty/sallow 
enough."
> 
> That's all.
> 


A lot of bookSnapefans would agree. I know (cringe) that my FIRST 
reaction when Grima came skulking out of the shadows in LOTR:TTT 
was "Oh yay, there's Snape!" He definitely had a "Snape thing" going 
on. It must have been the hair, because the more I thought about it 
the less Snapey he got. The first difference being his eyes, of 
course--Grima's eyes do not look like "dark tunnels". Also, his 
slouch. Snape does not slouch, nor does he creep. Then there is the 
terrible sense of desperation that just pours out of Grima. Now it's 
been suggested that Severus does carry around a sense of desperation, 
and that may be, but if so it's all inside--he most certainly does 
not wear it on his sleeve. 
What I really need to do is to go back and READ Tolkien again and 
remind myself of how Grima was *written*. It's been way too long for 
me to try to make any real comparison as I don't like to do that 
based on the movie alone.
As to Alan Rickman's portrayal? No, it's not "my personal, my book 
Snape", but I have to admit to paraphrase Robert Palmer: "He used to 
look good to me, but now I find him--simply irrisistable!"

Melpomene