OOP - Greasy haired odd kids

[dragonelle01]

No: HPFGUIDX 66051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "koinonia02" <Koinonia2 at h...> 
wrote:
> Tracey:
> 
> > portray Snape as greasy-haired: 1) to associate him with a lower 
> > class (bad hygiene = lower socioeconomic status); 
> 
> This could work but why still be 'greasy-haired'?

No reason in particular-- I was thinking that Rowling might have just 
pulled the greasy hair out of the standard bag of "sleazy character 
traits" to make you think, "aha, *there's* a Slytherin who didn't 
grow up with the Malfoys' money."  Grease also implying a certain 
amount of... not being on the up-and-up, in a Mundungus Fletcher sort 
of way.  Snape may be consorting with evil, but he's not out nicking 
cauldrons.

> >   We have evidence that 
> > he's worked on other aspects of his appearance since graduating 
> > Hogwarts, since he no longer walks around stoop-shouldered (and 
his 
> > gait seems to have improved as well).  So what gives?
> 
> This is the part I really wanted to comment on. Snape isn't 
described 
> as stoop-shouldered. He is described as round-shouldered. There's a 
> difference. Krum is described in the same way. Then there is the 
> description of him walking in a twitchy manner that recalled a 
> spider. Snape has always been described as having more of a smooth 
> gait. So this twitchy business reminds me of someone who has had a 
> hex put on them such as Neville has had numerous times. Remember 
that 
> James and Black are also in that room.

My bad on the stoop vs. round, that's what I get for posting without 
my book!  But I got the strong impression that the spider-like walk 
was natural for Teen Snape, since Harry's POV didn't note anything 
particularly artificial about it and the Marauders didn't stop to 
snicker about their clever hexwork before they all got out on the 
lawn.  Adult Snape is much more composed and has a groomed, superior 
manner about him, thus he walks calmly and smoothly in comparison to 
his younger self.

Tracey