Trusting your instincts about Snape WAS: sexy Snape

[lealess]

No: HPFGUIDX 139562

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "trouble_h2o" <trouble_h2o at y...>
wrote:
> From personal experince with abuse during my teen years, Professor 
> Snape would have been the only teacher at Hogwarts that I might have 
> told what was going on at home.
> <hugh snip>
> from my life experinces I see a man that can be trusted with 
> personal secrects and demons and able to act in very difficult 
> situations.  Someone I can respect but not like all the time.
> 

Since everyone is talking about how sexy, or not, Snape is, I just
wanted to respond to this post, which has a different slant on him,
hoping I am not too off-topic.

I had a teacher like Snape in my last year of high school (he only
taught seniors - never thought to wonder why until now).  He would
make incredibly cutting remarks to some students when they tried to
get by with minimal effort, enough to me cringe for those students
when they were verbally and publicly caught out.  He was tough.  He
expected us to do independent research and use our brains and come up
with our own solutions.  He was one of the best teachers I've ever
had.  He taught me how to take responsibility for my own learning, and
I remember him with gratitude and respect for that.

More pertinent to the above post, he was probably the first of the
"good fathers" I ran across in my life.  This teacher was honest and
intelligent, with tons of integrity, and in a sea of prevaricating
adults, someone I felt I could trust.  He just didn't tolerate liars
or slackers very well.

He also had Elephant Man disease, among other maladies, so he wasn't
pretty to look at.  Actually, he could have been compared to a
Frankenstein's monster in appearance.

One of my friends and I went to visit him, in trepidation, when he
became sick.  We went to his home and we met his wife.  He never
talked about his personal life, of course, never told us he had a
wife.  She was a lovely person, in every way.  And he was more human
around her, very warm and gracious, in fact.  I am glad I saw that
side of him.

To bring this back to Harry Potter, I think of my old teacher when I
think of Snape.  Spinner's End also showed a more gracious side of
Snape, if only briefly.

Snape was also head of Slytherin.  In that capacity, I can imagine him
as not coddling, but rather being firm and honest, with his charges. 
Snape might also have been a good friend to Draco, had Draco not been
so stupid about his "glory."

So, I think there is more to see in Snape besides sexiness.

lealess

Sorry if this posts more than once... kept getting an error message.