Who would love Snape?

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 107267

"potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
[snip]
> I wonder at the hair that is always referred to as greasy, not 
> oily.  It must be pretty bad. Why is it like that?  
[snip]
>  I also 
> have a horrible thought about Snape's  hair, but I'm hoping it isnt' 
> true.

My immediate thought was that he must have been in contact with
arsenic over the long time he has been concocting potions. This
recalled a character in one of Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels who was
an assassin and had become mostly immune to arsenic through taking
small doses but was given away by the hair effect.

Back in RL, t
it used to be that ladies would dose themselves with small amounts of
arsenic to keep their hair shiny!

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil