Sirius revisited

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No: HPFGUIDX 103943

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> wrote:
> Kneasy: 
> > It's to be expected many of the softer-hearted fans are suckers for 
> the 
> > 'damaged hero' figure in fiction. Handsome, anguished, just a touch 
> > dangerous - oooh! Personal fantasies go into overdrive and denial 
> > sets in -  "He can't be bad - I like him!"
> > 
> > Oh yes he can. And he probably is.
> 
> Marianne: 
> 
> Except for the "handsome" part, the above paragraph would cover a lot 
> of the Snape fans, too! He's dangerous, he's mysterious, he billows,  
> he's vampirish, he's damaged...Need I go on?
> 

Too true.
But most of them are seeing Alan Rickman, not the grotty old Sevvy
that JKR envisaged.

Mind you, even so he may cause a  maiden's heart to skip a beat,
that's why I wrote of the failed affair between him and Lily. Broken
hearted, she was - spurned by S. Snape, dedicated to his studies.
(see post 77800).

Kneasy