[HPforGrownups] Re: Liking Snape

[Kathryn Cawte]

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The Sergeant Majorette says:
 
Why do we love Snape? Simple -- movie contamination. Alan Rickman is 
hot. If they had gotten, say, F. Murray Abraham for the role -- who 
not only looks like Mary GrandPre's Snape, but has made a career of 
playing snapely characters the discussion would be moot.
  
Me -

That's a gross simplification of why people like Snape. Personally I was
dragged into the Potterverse through the movie. I had never read any of the
books when I saw the movie and frankly other than thinking it was a
fantastic piece of casting (because for those of us who hadn't read the
books you just assume he's the villain because he usually is) I didn't have
any real feelings either way about Snape other than thinking he was a bit of
a bully. However after I read the books (all four of them in less than a
week) I decided that Snape was the most intriguing character in the book.
And also damn sexy. So sorry although I do admit to adoring Alan Rickman, he
has very little to do with my Snape obsession. For more of my reasons for
liking Snape see my earlier post.

K