Big Bad Snape: the Riddle...

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 136031

My last comment on this somewhat unsavory subject... :-)

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlnbtr" <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> Juli: I still think he's sexy. Dirty underwear? where does it say
so? as I remember his underwear was gray (dirty clothes are yellow IMO)

Okay not explicitely but implied...

OoP American Edition, PP. 647:
"Snape was hanging upside down in the air, his robes falling over his
head to reveal skinny, pallid legs and a pair of graying underpants."

Note: it's "graying", not gray. This implies (to me) that they are not
gray underwear but were getting gray due to overuse and underwash...
 
> Lily must have told him to wash because she was hurt after he called 
> her mudblood.

She told him to wash them when she was angry at him, but she did not
seem the type to tell someone to wash their underpants if they were
clean, regardless of the circumstances:

PP. 648: "Lily blinked. 'Fine,' she said coolly. 'I won't bother in
the future. And I'd wash my pants if I were you, Snivellus.'"

> Greasy hair? couldn't it be some sort of gel or mousse?

PP. 593: "A greasy haired teenager sat alone in a dark bedroom,
pointing his wand at the ceiling, shooting down flies".

and

PP. 640: "Snape the teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him,
like a plant kept in the dark. His hair was lank and greasy and was
flopping onto the table".

and later (interesting description touches on the title "Spinner's End"):

PP. 643: "Round-shouldered yet angular, he walked in a twitchy manner
that recalled a spider, his oily hair swinging about his face".

Hardly seems a healthy clean young man, I'd say...

> and where does it say he has a runny nose?

Here I found no evidence. Sorry.

> He must shower, but I don't 
> know how often, I really don't know the "bathing" habits in the UK, 
> and in the Wizard World...

Europeans don't shower as frequently as Americans do, but if he did
shower, he did not seem to wash his hair or clothes...

> Juli: Who did he kill? The whole Dumbledore thing is still uncertain.

Ha? How so? Pointing a wand at someone while uttering the Killing
Curse, strong enough to blast them off the tower is killing in my
book, whether it was done by curse, fall or witholding of medical
treatment.

> And when did he tried to kill Sirius? in PoA when they were in the 
> Shack? of course he would! he was an escaped convict, even Harry tried 
> to kill him then.

He tried to kill Sirius both in the shack and later in the hospital,
despite having been presented evidence to suggest he is innocent.

Snape is an evil person. I personally believe that he is nevertheless
strangely commited to keeping Harry alive (my guess is another
Unbreakable Oath to that end that was made to DD), but he is still
evil with a bad end waiting for him... He may redeem himself some by
help keeping Harry alive, but not enough to save himself.

Salit