Lusting After Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 129357

> 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>. 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? 


Pippin:



You have to use your imagination a bit.  When we fantasize, we become
the objects of our own desire. 

 And our desire, some of us, is that this nasty disagreeable,
unfulfilled, unsexy part of ourselves which Porphyria identified
and which some of us recognize in Snape, should nonetheless be 
desirable. And since nobody in real life is ever likely to desire it, 
(Who'd want Snape in love with them?)  we simply 
have to split it off, in our imagination, and adore the persona of
ever so ugly, greasy nasty Severus Snape, who is so strangely and 
mysteriously  irresistible in a  way that  latent goodness (which is 
also ourselves) cannot explain. 


Or onto Alan Rickman, who has the bonus of  being a movie star, 
and thus a more conventional object of desire,    so that we don't 
have to admit to wanting that rejected piece of ourselves at all,
because the only thing worse than being ugly, greasy, nasty and
sarcastic would be ugly, greasy, nasty, sarcastic and needy. Which
is fanon Snape to a T.

Juicy, no? And I think JKR knows *exactly*  what she's doing, though
she's far too wise to embarrass her readers by admitting it.

Pippin