To be honest (wasRe: Lusting After Snape)

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> Neri:
> Potioncat, to be honest I was kind of disappointed after reading
this
> thread. The title you chose promised something a bit juicier than
> annoying teenagers <g>.

Potioncat:
 To be honest, when I looked at my post the next morning, I thought
to 
myself, "Why did I give it that title!"  We'll chalk it up to the
late 
hour and the chablis.


Niri:
 More seriously now, does Porphyria's theory
> (while certainly interesting) really answer GulPlum's original
> question? He asked why Snape is considered *sexy*. I think
Porphyria's
> theory may explain why mothers of teenagers would identify with
> Snape's difficulties with students, but does it explain why he's
> considered sexy?

Potioncat:
To be honest again, I didn't go upthread before posting Porphyria's 
thoughts. So I did after reading your post. You're right. Of course
she 
does make the point that she is looking at Snape's appeal to women 
readers, not necessarily his sex appeal. 

So, if we take out the sexiness, which JKR most likely never intended 
anyway, do we have a character who appeals to a woman because the 
character is just what she would like to be like; at least a little
bit 
and at least sometime? (But never would of course ;-) ) Whether she's
a 
mother at all? 

If you look to fanfic for readers' interpretations, you'll find quite
a 
few now that pair Remus and Severus.  Go figure.

Back to Gulplum: As for Snape's sexiness: I became interested in the 
character when I discovered, but before I'd finished SS/PS, that
Snape 
wasn't going to be the bad guy. I kept thinking, if he isn't the bad 
guy, who is, and what does that make Snape? And when it turned out
that 
not only was he not the bad guy, he was one of the wizards protecting 
Harry: he really became interesting.

He became sexy when I was reading a book while my kids watched the 
movie and this mesmerizing voice said, "I can teach you how..." So in 
all honesty, the appeal to Snape is the way he's written, neither 
nice/good nor evil/bad. The sexiness (from my point of view) is 
entirely Alan Rickman's fault.

Here's the link to Gulplum's post:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/44915

I don't recognise too many of the names of the follow-on posts. What 
does happen to old HPfGU members anyway?