Snape-aholics and Siriophiles and...?

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No: HPFGUIDX 105473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lavaluvn" <lavaluvn at y...> wrote:
> 
> Ooh, can I then stake my claim on "Snapeophiliacs"?  Sounds like a 
> dreadful disease, hmm?  I believe that there are folks out there who 
> also find ole Sevvy to not only be fascinating, but naughty and 
> sexy, in his own bad boy way, too.   Personally, I think this goes 
> under the "too eewww" category, but they are out there (you know who 
> you are).  Maybe it is Alan Rickman's fault.  
>

Kneasy:
You'll have to speak for yourself on this one; the convoluted reasonings 
of the female mind are terra incognita so far as I'm concerned. 
(Naughty? Sexy? What can you mean?)

> A:
> Snape-aholics are probably a much more inclusive group, fascinated 
> by the character, but possibly detesting him as a "person".  Or at 
> least as a teacher.  I certainly wouldn't want to be in his class.
> 

Kneasy:
Hardly  'detest'. A slow shake of the head, more in sorrow than in anger.
"Dear, oh dear, oh dear. What have you done now," sort of thing.
Detestation is indicative of Snape-ophobia. Easily recognised; the posts
tend to consist of short declarative sentences. The word 'evil' also tends
to crop up a lot.

> A:
> Snape-apologists go a step beyond and attempt to justify his 
> seemingly unjustifiable actions. IE, "he's trying to prepare them 
> for the real world" instead of just "he hates the boy because he 
> hated the father."   
> Do I have all that right?
>

Kneasy:
It's my understanding that they generally go further - they don't see 
the need for any reasonable justification for his actions at all. "It's just
Snape, JKR wrote him that way - accept it," is a common line.
Strangely, it's normally the Snape-aholics that come up with the 
theories explaining why. (Don't blame me, 'Snape-apologists' isn't one
of mine so I don't really appreciate the subtleties of the term. I could 
be entirely wrong.)


> Now Siriophiles are pretty straightforward: -philiacs, -apologists 
> and -aholics rolled into one.  
> 
> And they certainly aren't mutually exclusive groups, as SSSusan has 
> repeatedly proved.
> 

Kneasy:
Hmm. Well, by her email tag SSSusan hails from Chicago.
Such things are to be expected. We must be kind to  her.