OOP - Greasy haired odd kids

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 70121

> Arcum:
> > I picture it more as a typical Snape day involving him getting up,
> > shampooing, working on all the potion projects he had going the
> > previous night, and, by the time he gets through a class or two,
> > having all the fumes from the potions settle on his hair and make 
> > it all greasy again.
> > 
> > He may even have given up on his hair at this point, if he was
> > fighting that sort of losing battle. Though I'm suprised Gilderoy
> > never tried to sell him on his line of shampoos and 
> > conditioners... 
> 
> 
> LOL! I love your explanation for poor Snape's greasy hair 
> (presumably he was spending loads of time in the lab at school as 
> well).

Thanks!

> I think he was described that way, though, to make him unattractive 
> to readers. 

Oh, I'm sure that would be the reason he was written that way, but, as
with most things, there's the authors reasons for putting it in, and 
then there is the explanation for how it fits in the universe.

Then, of course, I could explain it as simply that most teenagers tend
to go through a phase where they have greasy hair, and the hair is an
symbollic of the fact that Snape, much like Sirius, has never 
emotionally matured beyond that age, but then, the three explanations 
are hardly mutually exclusive...

> This is a pity - good-looking enemies are forgiven much by 
> fans (though Snape has his fans too, it seems, but probably more
> among adults than child readers). Anybody remember the British 
> science fiction series BLAKE'S 7? 

> There was a character who talked like Snape, Kerr Avon. But Avon
> was good-looking, so he was the most popular character in the show, 
> especially among female viewers. Are we really that shallow? 
> 

Actually, I think there is something specifically about witty,
sarcastic men in black that does it. That, and there's a certain
tendancy to be attracted to people who you *know* are entirely wrong
for you to be accounted for...

--Arcum, hoping the Harry Potter series doesn't end the same way Blake
7 did...