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

[pippin_999]

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> Ceridwen:
> I liked, or at least was favorably inclined toward Snape, before I 
> ever saw the films.  I love the 'Spock Effect' comment, it just might 
<snip Holmes comments with which I agree>
> I think that a certain segment of the population do 'go gaga over 
> emotionally repressed men with tons of baggage'.  Lupin is another 
> one who has that going for him - he has tons of baggage, and secrets 
> he can't reveal.  But Lupin is more... open, is it?  He seems more 
> vulnerable.  Snape stands behind a wall of sarcasm thicker than a 
> castle's walls.  There is no kindness, no empathy there.  I think 
> Lupin would hate to hurt anyone's feelings, which has led to the 
> problem of Prefect Lupin ignoring his friends when they got 
> rambunctious as we saw in the Pensieve.

Pippin::passes round the cream cakes::
I definitely went for Snape before I saw the movies. I think there's
a lot to the repressed/emotional baggage theory. I've never felt
attracted to Sirius, maybe because he's too sure of himself. Snape
is at least apprehensive on occasion. Lupin surprised me -- I never
thought he was sexy until I deduced that he was a villain. Far from
being open, ESE!Lupin is keeping one part of himself hidden indeed.
But as he seems to have this nasty habit of trying to kill anyone who
gets too close to his secrets, I'll have to pass.

Snape, though -- I'm definitely too old, too married and too staid for 
him, but that's real life. Fantasy is another matter.

Pippin