Lusting After Snape

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 129331

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> Lusting after Snape
> 
> The question has come up many times. Snape is not described in 
> appealing ways, yet he has a large fan base. What is his appeal? 
Back in 2002 Prophyria took on the challenge of "why is Snape so
> appealing to so many women?".  Here is the post #47913:
(snip) Snape is the cast-off animus of an individual who has been 
socialized as female. OK, plain English: Snape appeals to some women 
because he is exactly what a woman cannot be if she is to be 
recognized as "feminine" in our society.
(Snip)


Tonks:

Anyone who hates children and cats can't be all bad!!  I am a bit 
like Snape, to tell the truth. It is a bit of my sick sense of 
humor. I am the only one who can tell my friend's cat what to do and 
it does it!  It wouldn't obey anyone because they all like cats, but 
it obeys me because I don't.  When I look at it and say "you!" and 
point up the stairs it looks at me and goes!!  Just like Snape.  No 
mollycoddling just stern "do it and do it now!" 

Reading the books I fell in love with DD. I told my friends and they 
said "He is too old for you. And besides he is a fictional 
character."  I really do love DD.  He is everything I strive to be.  
I like (book)Lupin too, and according to personality profiles we 
have the same score.

Now it wasn't until the media that can't be named did the second 
book that I said "OH Snape!!  It was that scene with the table and 
the snake. Hollywood really knows how to take a nasty character and 
make him a man all women lust after.  But he is not that way in the 
books. So I do think that the book Snape and the other Snape are not 
really the same person, but now because of Allan Rickman, in our 
minds they are. Call him the new Snape (book/movie combo). He is the 
combination of a man who is our intellectual equal, and someone who 
can taking a commanding presence and knows what he is doing, does 
it, and does it right. He can be in the presence of even the Dark 
Lord and follow his (Snape's) own way.  He is the opposite of that 
sniffling Wormtail. 

So why do woman want (new)Snape?  One reason is that he is the 
symbol of raw power channeled and controlled. He is our dark side. 
If Snape wants us then we have control of the power of darkness.  A 
man that is the symbol of darkness, but a hint of rebellious 
goodness, a man to whom children and cats cower comes to us and 
grovels at our feet.  That is what women see in Snape.  The power a 
woman has over the strongest man.  "Yes dear I will take out the 
trash right now, yes dear."  That is what we want
 ah.. well part 
anyway. (blush). 

Tonks_op