[HPforGrownups] Re: What *is* the attraction to those Slytherins?

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 68503



crisagi1 wrote:

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  >>Okay.  I have been reading many posts written by people who just
  >
  > drool
  >
  >>over Draco, Lucius and Snape.  People think they're sexy!  People
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  > want
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  >>to marry Lucius! They might even want to run their fingers through
  >>Snape's hair!  What is the deal with this?

I don't know why people started to brand the three of them together and
force us poor Snapefans to explain Lucius and Draco.
The Malfoys can go and hang themselves for all I care.

Snape is deliberately written in such a way that allows at least two
interpretations for every bit of information we are given.
So for someone who hates him, greasy hair + yellow teeth = poor personal
hygiene, all the better to hate you with, my  dear.
But if you don't hate him, greasy hair has many benign explanations,
yellow teeth do not generally bother british in the same way they bother
americans, and you will notice that JKR never mentions the inevitable
sign of poor personal hygiene - bad smell.
Even these infamous pants, so what that the explanation even made it
into OoP FAQ, I still disagree with it. Old underwear develop holes if
you use washing machine. I doubt house elves do. Old white underwear
washed with strong soap or primitive washing powder becomes exactly that
- greying. I had a misfortune to live in time and place without washing
machines and fancy modern washing powders, and I remember this fact very
well.

So if the question was "How can you like Snape when he is described is
such a disgusting way", the answer is "No, he is very carefully
described in a very ambiguous way".
Maybe in book 6 JRK will open her cards a bit more and I'll go "eeek,
gross" with the rest of you, but so far it does not bother me.

Oh, and it's not attraction to the villain either. If Snape is
actually proven to be ever so evil, I won't like him anymore.
And it's not movie poisoning, I liked him way before the casting was
even announced. Though nobody's sex appeal was ever hurt from being
played by Alan Rickman, gotta give him that.

Irene