[HPforGrownups] Re:The REAL reason Snape's hair is greasy!

[Star Opal]

No: HPFGUIDX 50126

Sushi said:

>1. Hair and skin
>
>I don't remember who first forwarded this theory on one of my fic
>lists, but it's the best explanation I've ever found for limp, greasy hair:
>he's standing over cauldrons all day.

But that doesn't work for when he was younger. *jumps on the theorizing band 
wagon* What if its a curse? Remember,

"Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in 
seventh year..." (GoF, ch 27)

What if there's a greasy hair curse?

Sushi:
>2. Skin (con't.)
>
>Severus doesn't leave the dungeons very much.

Totally agree.

Sushi:
>3. Teeth and Bitterness
>
>If Snape loves his job, I'll eat my aviation shears.  This man is
>a sullen, angry, bitter academic if I ever saw one, and he's got to do
>*something* to deal with it.
.....
>          Nicotine


Okay I personally don't feel Snape hates teaching, but I'm sure that that's 
been discussed before so I won't go into that.

Anyway, I don't think anyone smokes in the books do they? I think coffee and 
tea might be why. I can just see Snape going over to his cabinet and pulling 
out the can of coffee, just to find it empty,
"Grr!" Looks at class schedule rubbing temple from caffeine head ache, "I 
got Harry Potter's class today! Great, just great." sighs, "Maybe torturing 
Longbottom will alleviate the pain in my head..."

>4. Voice

I think he speaks like that to sound threatening. All the time. He has 
created a persona that is meant to bring fear from his students. This is his 
comfort zone, he's safe and in control. Part of that persona? His voice.

But, when his authority is being questioned, when he has to deal with 
insecurities (from his school days for instance) he loses all that. In PoA 
ch 19 pages 360-361 (US paperback) he _shouts_ looking "quite deranged" and 
_"shrieks"_ looking "madder than ever."

The voice is, in my opinion, is more mental than physical.

Star Opal
- who is is weirded out by the phrase "sexier than socks on a rooster"

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