Snape's iPod (was: Staff's Activities (was:Re: Snape's Speech patterns)

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> >>Krista (wondering what music Jogging!Snape has on his iPod)

Betsy Hp:
Since I love to overthink our Professor Snape, I've been giving this 
*way* too much thought <g>.  My flippant response was 
Weezer's "Beverly Hills" ('cause, heh).  And then there's Pink 
Floyd's "The Wall" ('cause he'd so get and love the irony).  

But then I realized that Snape would have been in his late teens, 
early twenties (per the Lexicon which puts his birth year at '59 
or '60) in the late 70's and early 80's.  So he'd be a disaffected 
youth with working class roots (possibly/probably) and some major 
anger issues at the birth of punk.  Snape and punk?  Oh hells yeah!  
So add in some Velvet Underground, Ramones, Patti Smith, the Clash, 
Sex Pistols, etc.  (Though I do question the Sex Pistols.  Snape may 
have felt them a bit more show than substance.  Someone with a 
better grasp of that particular era than I can make the call. <g>) 

As a total guilty pleasure that he'd cheerfully murder anyone who 
found out about it -- ABBA.  I can picture either Lily or Narcissa 
being big ABBA fans while at Hogwarts, so which ever POP floats your 
boat, Snape has an emotional attachment to ABBA that he just can't 
shake.

Throw in some Rachmaninov, Debussy, Mahler and Beethovan.  Add a bit 
of Mozart (Dumbledore's influence) and I think we've got a good 
start.  (I considered Wagner, for obvious reasons, but I'm not sure 
Snape would honestly go for it.)

[This is a total aside, but thinking of Snape as the weird kid from 
a not so great neighborhood, I'm betting he was a scrapper.  I'll 
bet he was used to fighting unfair odds and knew how to fight dirty 
(it'd match his school-boy vocabulary, anyway).  So I'm betting the 
first time he and James and Sirius got into it they had a bit of a 
shock. heh.]

Betsy Hp (over-thinking things since birth - can I blame my 
parents?)