Sexy Snape?

[lolita_ns]

No: HPFGUIDX 139543

Silmariel wrote:
> very noticeable the change in description in Spinner's End, it 
didn't give me 
> that ugly depiction of Snape, rather a neutral one. 
> 



Well, yes, obviously, since it's finally NOT through Harry's eyes that 
we see him - you put it correctly, it's neutral narrator on stage. SS 
is probably not THAT ugly as Harry describes him - his narration is 
coloured by his hatred of Snape. 

Still, SS is no Mr Beautiful. His features aside - beauty is in the 
eyes of the beholder - his hygiene is seriously lacking (yellow teeth! 
eew!) and his disposition is certainly horrible. It's just like 
Rowling said - he is a deeply horrible person. And if he really gets 
off on molesting 11 year olds, then he's more pitiful than anything 
else. He's scary when you're a kid, but later on... He intimidates 
little kids, and does not see it fit to change any of it as these 
kids - from year to year - besome younger than he. I understand that 
this teaching style was maybe necessary when he was 22 and some of the 
kids 18 (after all, they were the kids who saw his pants!), but not 
any more. He magnificiently fails to grasp the difference between 35+ 
and 15+, and that is just... pathetic. Like he's trying to prove to 
himself that he's not that pathetic, he can still scare a kid or two..

All of this babbling aside, this whole thread creepily reminds me of a 
story by Woody Allen, in which a guy is mentioned who had a passionate 
love affair with Molly Bloom until he realized that she was a literary 
character. SS is just that - a literary character - and I would much 
rather hear other people's opinions on his portrayal. And he seems to 
be portrayed in a way to make people wonder about him all the time. He 
is definitely one of the most interesting characters (and - in terms 
of pure LITERATURE - a much more convincing and again interesting 
villain that LV, who, after the revelations of HBP, seems to be bad 
just because he's... bad. All that stuff about choices, and now it 
seems that LV is simply the true heir of the Gaunt madness, and there 
are no choices involved here) in HP. And as for all that black, and 
swishing, and billowing, and flourishes, not to mention 'I can teach 
you how to bottle fame...' or 'The dark arts are a many-headed 
monster...' - does anyone else immediately think of the 
expression 'drama queen', or is it just me?

Lolita, who still sees HP characters as literary characters, and not 
real people. :)