[HPforGrownups] Re: Lusting After Snape

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 129359

Well, speaking personally I don't think it has anything to do with
Alan Rickman.  I liked Snape from the get-go because he was an
interesting character and you never know what he's going to do in any
given situation.  Snape is the first three-dimensional character in
the series, and makes a lot of other important characters look flat
by comparison.

He also gets some good bits in COS by wiping the mat with Lockhart
(which looked great in the movie - Kenneth Branagh might go down in
cinematic history as the only actor who ever stole not just isolated
scenes but an an entire movie from Alan Rickman) and by leading the
teacher attack on Lockhart in the staff room.  Ditto the bit in OOTP
when Umbridge demands truth serum and he turns her down; I love the
bit where he gets all chatty about the problems of using poisins, as
if he's one expert talking to another.  

I don't know if the male-female thing has anything to do with whether
or not you like Snape, but I will suggest that if you find Harry a
bit boring (or increasingly annoying, as I do) then you're more
likely to appreciate the one character who doesn't constantly pander
to the little self-centred prat.  

Magda

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