ACID POPS vs LOLLIPOPS (was:Re: Whom does Snape REALLY love?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 138941

Combining responses again.

> Alla:
> 
> Indeed, I was so glad that in HBP JKR finally called the other 
> teacher " master" and yes, I never heard him insisting on being 
> called so in class.
> 
> "The tiny little Charms master was bobbing his way towards them..."- 
> HBP, p.515.
>
> <snip>

Neri:
Thanks for the canon, Alla. I've missed that one. 


Valky wrote:

> I like Snape as a unicorn, the lady trapped him because he soft on
> women, especially beautiful fragile princesses like Narcissa. His
> gentleness with Draco's injury just smoked of protectiveness of the
> child.

Neri:
Why, Valky, we have *just* the product for you: ACID POPS Light. 

If you'll allow me to quote from my own advertisement leaflet
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/138790
"This brand is for those members who prefer their Snape noble at heart
and the savior of damsels in distress."

Sounds to me just like what you were looking for. And I'll be
completely fair with you and even read the small print on the bottom:

"Regardless of brand, all consumers of ACID POPS support the assertion
that Severus' emotions for Narcissa were a main reason for his choice
to undertake the Unbreakable Vow, and that Narcissa was at least
partially aware of these emotions and stirring them." That's the
essence of ACID POPS."

I believe you've already expressed such sentiments in your post, so
you're not committing yourself to anything here. I don't even mind if
you try mixing it with LOLLIPOPS. Really I don't. It might make for a
nice combination, I wouldn't know. Haven't tried it myself because,
frankly, I just can't stand *that* amount of sugar. 

Oh, and about Maternal!Snape, he doesn't interfere with ACID POPS
Light at all. You can keep him, no problems. Only I personally think
it's a pity that his protectiveness doesn't extend to 15 yrs old
princesses just because their front teeth are too large.


> colebiancardi wrote:
>
> I have to say... what people will do for a ship - LOL.  Somehow, I can
> not see Snape wasting away for either a dead person(Lily) or for a
> very married woman(Cissa) for 15 years.  I can't see Snape turning his
> back on Voldemort because he wanted to *win* Cissa's love, her being a
> pureblood and a Voldemort supporter - I mean, talk about a way to woo
> a woman - join the other side that she is on!!  I can't see Snape
> turning his back on LV for a married woman with a newborn baby who is
> married to his childhood nemesis, either.  
>

Neri:
There were times, not long ago, when I thought so myself. But HBP was
The Revenge Of The SHIPs, and it was one BIG revenge. Not only we had
four big ships, including one with an actual date for a wedding, and
countless minor ones (darn it, even Filch and Madam Pince got together
in the end), but it turned out that the whole HP saga wouldn't even
exist but for Meropa's unrequited love for Tom Riddle Sr. That what
had started it all. We can no more afford the luxury of laughing at
SHIP scenarios. Snape is a person who has apparently harbored and
cultivated a hate towards James for many years after James' demise,
and towards Sirius for many years after Sirius was buried alive in
Azkaban. It's the kind of things Snape does, and at times it makes him
act irrationally and close his eyes to important facts, like the
existence of a rat animagus in the Shrieking Shack. Wouldn't he also
harbor and cultivate an old unrequited love? Wouldn't it also make him
act irrationally at critical moments? 

> colebiancardi also wrote: 
> I believe he took the UV because he knew what was going to happen down
> the line, based on the recent events that happened to Dumbledore.  I
> am sure that DD & Snape had some discussions around this prior to the
> UV and based on the speculation of the conversation in the forest,
> Snape wasn't all on board with the final doings.  Taking the UV wasn't
> going to cost him anything to do so, and it would gain the trust of
> the Malfoy's if he took it.  It also splits the DE's camp - the
> Malfoy's owe Snape big time now.   
> 

Neri:
Regardless of Snape true loyalties, whether they are for Dumbledore,
for Voldy or for himself, I see very little logic in him taking the
UV. Whatever were his plans, he would have had much more room to
maneuver without this mortal obligation. It looks like an extremely
stupid risk to take. If Draco will do something foolish and come to
some harm (as he very nearly did when fighting Harry in the bathroom)
then Snape is dead on the spot. Taking the UV in order to split the
DE's camp seems redundant: the Malfoys were already shunned by
Voldemort and under a death threat. Gaining the trust of the Malfoys
would have looked like a more plausible reason had Snape bothered to
hint even once in Spinner's End that he's doing this for Lucius too,
but he hadn't. Any way I look at it, I don't see a rational reason for
Snape to take the UV. This leaves the irrational reasons. And
preferably a big, BANGy reason that can be revealed in a single
sentence, and then all the small (and not so small) clues between the
lines would fit in by themselves.

Neri