Sexy Snape / JKR's men (was:Re: What's fun about the HPs?...)

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> >>SSSusan:
> <snip>
> I mean, would anyone dare suggest Snape is sexy here?  Come on,    
> tell the truth!  Would anyone??  And I don't mean Rickman!Snape    
> either. It *has* been done here before, you know, people talking   
> about Snape being sexy and why....
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Okay, I'm about to channel my inner-Pansy here, unleash my simpering 
girly-girlness, and horrify JKR, but...

Oh, my Lord, yes, yes, a thousand times yes!  Snape is so very, 
incredibly, mind meltingly sexy, IMO.  I am completely and totally 
positive that there is a strong and healthy Snape fanclub at 
Hogwarts.  Probably tilted towards Slytherins, but with its fair 
share of Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs, and even a few rogue 
Gryffindors bravely defying their house's bias.

And no, it's not Rickman.  (Though I do like Rickman, I think he was 
mis-cast in this role.  He's too old, unfortunately.  And too tall, 
though that could have been handled, but especially against Gary 
Oldman's Sirius... and I'm totally slipping into movie stuff, so 
I'll stop <g>.)

But yeah, smart gets me every time, and Snape has smarts in 
buckets.  Plus he's got that amazing wit he's so not afraid to use.  
(Sometimes when he shouldn't, I'll admit.)  And to dredge up 
Sydney's Jogging!Snape, he's also in incredible shape (running from 
the dungeon to the top of the astronomy tower and then back down, 
still able to cower werewolves and fend off pissed off students...) 
and wonderfully skilled with his wand. (my inner-Pansy is giggling 
madly...)

But, speaking of his wand, and I'll try to dredge up some 
intelligence for this part of the post (girly-girl *and* 
intelligent?  Can it be done!?!), one of the things that is so 
interesting about Snape as a character is he's such a combination of 
male and female qualities.  He's good with a wand and with a 
cauldron.

He's an amazing dueler, very able to get physical when the demand is 
there.  But he's also a Potions master, head of Slytherin (the 
water) house, and will use the more female type of verbal attack if 
need be.  (The scene where Snape gathers the other teachers together 
to drive Lockhart from their midst would be an example.)  IIRC there 
was a very interesting post a while back on the ways Snape embodied 
the stereotypical *witch* aspects.  

And of course, JKR as a master of hurt/comfort with her guys, 
doesn't spare Snape.  So there's that going for him, too.

> >>Alla:
> <snip>
> But funnily enough I was talking to somebody off list about       
> sexiness of the characters and I probably mentioned it on list in 
> the past, but I really do NOT find any of the adult characters    
> sexy. Honestly, I don't.
> And I am not just talking about Snape, I am also talking about
> Sirius, who I love dearly as a character, and whom I think would   
> have been a loyal friend after a lot of therapy sessions :)
> I don't know why. I mean, Sirius IS describes as physically
> attractive, but I guess not my type.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
And I'm the opposite. <g>  I find so many of JKR's male characters 
to be quite attractive.  I think, probably because of the 
hurt/comfort thing, if I'm being totally honest (to my inner-Pansy 
who's feelings would be hurt if I lied during a good girly dish like 
this <g>).  Sirius and Lupin and Snape (of course) all strike me as 
yummy, even if I'm not always a big fan of their actions.  They all 
suffer so well.

The funny thing is that I *never* thought Lockhart was sexy.  At 
all.  Did anybody, I wonder?  Because, while he was described as 
being physically attractive, his personality was off-putting from 
the start.  And JKR didn't give us anything to work with.  I wonder 
how he'd have come across if the books were written from Hermione's 
pov?  Hermione *must* have interperted Lockhart's actions completely 
differently from Harry for her to keep her crush for so long.  Would 
that have passed on to us as readers, I wonder?  (I suspect JKR 
would have still left him exposed as a fraud from the get-go, with 
the reader feeling a sort of fond sympathy for Hermione's crush.)

So yeah, when it comes to her male characters, JKR's got me. <g>

Betsy Hp