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

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 "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...> 
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> Ceridwen:
> (pulling a chair up to the table and setting out the flavored creamer 
> to go with the good dish coffee and kuchen)
> My inner Pansy is squeeing in delight!
> 
> My Pansy is waiting for the others, with plenty of coffee brewing, or 
> tea if you'd rather.
> 


Potioncat:
Coffe, cake and Snape? Who could ask for more? Yes, please, coffee. 

I agree to Snape's wit being very appealing, although he needs someone
to take him in hand and make him throttle back around the kiddies. Is
he "in shape"? Well, he isn't overweight, he has an easy source of
nourishing food and he does a great deal of walking. So he may not be
a poster boy for aerobics, but I'd say he's in shape. 

Actually, wizarding folk do a lot of walking, or is that typical for
Brits? The students walk to Hogsmeade when you'd think it'd be safe to
fly, the Weasleys walk to the portkey, there's a lot of walking just
to get to the different classes. Not sure about Slughorn and Sprout.

Back to the subject. I was quite horrified to discover (once JKR
announced Snape's age) that I was "too old" for canon!Snape. I guess
that tells how strong the Rickman influence is. So if I were to look
only at the characters that I would be appropriate for....that leaves
Dumbledore and the incredibly old looking wizard who came to observe
Buckbeak's execution. Oh, and maybe Ollivander. Nott might be a
possibilty...OK, the numbers are there, but not sure about the
attraction. DD has the clear lead in this case. His own brand of word
play and irony, not quite sarcasm, are appealing. He's powerful, he's
kind. He's intelligent.(And he's more like Harris than Gambon.)

Oh, and if I stretch it a bit, Arthur should be about the right age.
He's very appealing. It's easy to get a big dose of
movie-contamination and think he's bumbling...he isn't inept in the
books. He's a very solid, very dependable, and fairly tolerant man.
What's not to like? I'd say he also has the required red hair, but
that may be contamination. Is he sexy? We see him as so fatherly
through Harry's eyes that it's hard to tell. But the glimpse we get in
HBP, and the bits Molly has said in the past, tell me that yeah,
Arthur could be sexy.

Lupin is sexy in a bad boy way.....Oh, well, ESE!Lupin is sexy.He can
thank Pippin for that. Lupin himself is sort of meak and lacks the
courage of conviction. Tonks will lead him around all right.

Were I a teenager (God forbid, who would ever want to go that more
than once!) I'd like Ron. He's a goofy boy, but he won't always be,
and his heart is in the right place. The twins are also very, very
appealing, but not if you view their pranks with a grown-up eye. And
most importantly of all, they all have red hair. That was the number
one requirement of my future husband when I was a young teen. 

Potioncat, enjoying the cake and coffee, and suddenly finding more
threads she likes than she can respond to in one day and wishing she
could move un-used post quotas up. (but has to go to work anyway so
can't.)