[HPforGrownups] What *is* the attraction to those Slytherins?, also Nicknames

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 69219

At 2:26 PM +0000 7/7/03, jenny_ravenclaw wrote:
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>Give me some canon to back up why you find Draco so dreamy, Lucius so
>lucious or Snape so sexy - things they've said, their behavior, body
>language - anything, because I just don't get it.  Telling me movie
>Draco is a cutie doesn't count; I want it straight from the books.

In the case of Lucius, for me, it's purely movie contamination.  I 
didn't find him the least bit interesting in the books, and still 
don't, although the "snake" comment in the MoM was amusing.

Draco I'm not attracted to per se - I want to save him.  He's far too 
bright to be throwing his potential away by trying to turn into his 
father.  It's actually a sort of pseudo-maternal thing.

Snape - ah, my Severus is another matter entirely.  See, I'm an 
intellisexual and I'm into Hurt-Comfort.  Snape is quite bright - 
from designing the Potions challenge in SS to figuring out Harry's 
cryptic blurt in OoP, he's always depicted as one of the smartest 
adults in the books - and he's absolutely brimming with pain.  Given 
that he's depicted as deeply alone - he has a bantering professional 
relationship with McGonagall, and a rather opaque relationship with 
Dumbledore that might have father-son aspects, but rarely interacts 
visibly with other adults - he's just begging for some deep-hearted 
lady (or man; why not?) to charm her way into his life with wit and 
empathy and bind all his old emotional wounds.

That he has Alan Rickman's voice now doesn't hurt in the least, of course.  ;)


At 7:35 PM -0400 7/7/03, SnapesSlytherin at aol.com wrote:
>I think the male characters aren't written attractive because Harry's (to the
>best of my knowledge) straight.  He wouldn't even think about the male
>characters that way.  Again, my opinion about the 
>Straight!Harry...although I think it's pretty much canon now. 
>Unless the thing with Cho was a farce!

Not to nitpick, but that doesn't prove Straight!Harry; it merely 
disproves Gay!Harry.  Bi!Harry is still a possible option, albeit not 
one that I think JKR is likely to explore in canon.  (Beyond the 
possible implications of "finding his Wheezy" . . .)


At 3:34 PM +0000 7/7/03, melclaros wrote:
>In PoA Snape knew exactly who MWPP were.
>The exchange in the penseive show us that they were not particularly
>furtive about the use of their nicknames.

He also knows who Padfoot is, at least, in OoP - when Harry blurts 
the warning out in Umbridge's office, Snape contacts Sirius 
straightaway once he leaves.  Moreover, Harry seems to have a pretty 
good expectation that Snape will know who "Padfoot" is, too.

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