Not so bad Snape (was Re: Sexy Snape?)

lagattalucianese katmac at katmac.cncdsl.com
Mon Sep 5 13:09:47 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 139580

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> Luckdragon:
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> Actually both McGonagal and Hermione are exactly as I pictured them.
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I too thought they were "spot on", especially McGonagall. And 
Dumbledore is pretty close (the Richard Harris Dumbledore, that is; 
can't speak for his replacement; I'm technologically challenged when 
it comes to DVD players, so haven't seen PoA yet).

As for canonical Snape: As a teen, he comes across as one of those 
creepy kids who in this universe would be running around in Doc 
Martins and a safety pin through his lip and trying to figure how he 
can borrow his dad's power rifle to blow the school away. As an 
adult, he reminds me of those creepy Jesuits in nineteenth-century 
Gothics, lurking in corridors and plotting to poison the hero and 
chain the heroine to the ceiling for the good of her soul. I love the 
movie Snape, but I have trouble connecting him to the canonical 
version. (Odd, didn't JKR hand-pick Alan Rickman for the part and 
give him lots of sub-rosa information about Snape that hasn't 
appeared in the books yet? I seem to remember reading something like 
that in one of her interviews.)

--Gatta







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