[HPforGrownups] Re: Liking Snape

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 68157

> 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.
>


Nope, not me.  I adored Snape from the moment I read him in the first book,
long before the movie came out.  While I like Rickman, he's a little too
good-looking for the Snape I imagine in my mind, although his voice is
perfect.  And I know there are quite a lot of other Snape-lovers who are
unaffected by Rickman playing the role.  (Plus, Snape in the movies has a
lot of his best book lines taken away.)  It's the character as he is in the
book that I love.

Diana W.