Snape's goatee? NOOooooooooo!

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No: HPFGUIDX 79679

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> wrote:
> A few months ago, when I first joined this group, my attention was 
> drawn to a picture of Professor Snape, drawn by J.K. Rowling, which 
> is in the photos section of HP for Grownups.  In it, he has a 
> goatee.  This startled me, as never in my wildest dreams had I ever 
> pictured a bearded Snape.  He's never described as having one in the 
> books, right?

Blech! My son recently brought up the fact that Snape was balding and
had a goatee. It must have been because he saw that picture in OoP.
After I protested for a while, he showed me the picture and I had to
relent.  But no, I don't think Snape is ever described in that way in
the books; he is, of course, described as having lank, greasy hair and
often being "waspish", but no mention is made of the goatee or the bald.

I think JKR has her own idea of what Snape looks like (as any writer
has a mental picture of her characters) and the illustrator
collaborates with her on her pictures. (I'm an illustrator; many of my
illustrations are a combination of my vision and the writer's vision
-- unless I'm extremely lucky and the writer gives me free reign!
Yay!).  The directors of the Harry Potter movies have their own ideas,
of course. And we readers have yet a slightly different version in our
own minds.  

Nonetheless, I sure do hate "Goatee Man". I've successfully
"obliviated" him from my mind.

Entropy, who will never let anyone mess with her vision of Snape!