[HPforGrownups] Re: In Defence of Lupin Part ONE

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 85369

Carol wrote:

> We should do a poll to find out how many of the women on this list
> find Snape sexy. I'm sure it's a lot more than us two!

I'd have to raise my hand here, too, yup yup.  Book!Snape has long held my 
interest, as a complicated, mysterious, powerful, intelligent man WITH a sense of 
humor.  Okay, so it's a mean, snarky sense of humor, still he has one.  Very 
important.  I wouldn't call him 'sexy', though, so much as 'seductive'.  Perhaps it's 
just a difference in vocabulary, but I've always thought of 'sexy' as someone (or, 
let's face it, someTHING) that gets the blood moving and the juices flowing, while 
'seductive' is someone (things usually can't be seductive) that, for whatever reason, 
gets under my skin and insinuates himself into my conciousness, such that I can't 
get him out of my mind.  I'm fascinated, drawn like a moth to the flame, knowing I 
shouldn't go there but helpless to resist.

As for looks, well, we do only see him from Harry's perspective, so his 'looks' are 
skewed a bit in presentation.  However, I have read some very seductive characters 
as presented from their seductee's (?) perspective, and some of them have been 
rather, erm, unappealing, physically.  But they don't have to be physically attractive 
to be magnetic -- power, intellect, mystery, they are all seductive properties, and 
Snape has them all in abundance.

Now, when it comes to Movie!Snape, I think the casting was brilliant, and I *adore* 
watching Alan to begin with, but I was already hooked on Snape before the movies 
came out.  Book!Snape caught me from his very first uttered line, about the beauty 
of potions.  Wow.

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Tammy
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