Liking Snape

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 68193

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana Williams" <diana at s...> 
wrote:
> > 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.


Yup...add my name to this one please! I read his entrance in book one 
(His own chapter!) so many times my son got mad and yelled "MOM! Can 
we go ON?" He's just grown more mysterious and intreguing as the 
series has gone on. Is he? Isn't he? What's he up to? And now that 
we've seen glimpses of him as a youth, I REALLY want to know where 
and when did he learn to be such a poet? When did he learn to sweep 
through the halls instead of moving in a twitchy manner "like a 
spider"?
I think Rickman is doing a great job playing "movie Snape". I love 
Alan. His Snape is gorgeous and elegant. But movie Snape is NOT Book 
Snape. And that is a Real Shame. Doing away with the most intreguing 
character in the series doesn't do anyone any favors.

Melpomene