[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherins and Werewolves (was:Snape vs Lupin/UK vs. US

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 170525

Betsy Hp:
I have a couple of ideas. One is tied to the blood purity thing. If 
Slytherins are all about blood-purity (which I have a hard time 
buying, since no other house is *all* about just one thing, but yes 
I'll agree Slytherins are more interested in blood than other houses, 
or at least they'll admit to it <g>) it stands to reason they'd fear 
the one creature that can take it all away from them. From pureblood 
to half-breed with one bite.

Magpie:
I've definitely always thought that made sense for Draco, certainly, the
idea of contamination. I always found it interesting the way there were
pernicious theories about Snape being a vampire and Draco being a werewolf
when on some levels one might ask why it wasn't the other way around since
Draco has the coloring of a vampire and Fanon!Draco is often seductive
while canon!Snape sometimes loses it in a rage. In HBP Draco wasted
away--they both have some nice Victorian touches, and compared to the
Gryffindors seem much more potentially Goth and mournful. Narcissa looks
like a drowned woman etc. Snape's got the red elf wine.

Yet it somehow seems right. Snape isn't a Pureblood, but maybe it also
means other stuff--loss of control, people seeing the inner beast. Snape
tries to put himself across as more cerebral and sophisticated.

BetsyHp:
The other is the Slytherin as a female house thing. Werewolves are 
the embodiment of male aggression, so naturally the feminine 
Slytherins fear them, and the masculine Gryffindors love them.

Which leads to that thing the Gryffindors' fear the most: chest 
monsters, obviously. Dating, hand-holding, talking about feelings, 
associating with *girls* and their *cooties*, in *tea shops of 
DOOOOOM*. GAH! Madness that gets friend turning on friend and birds 
flying in your face. Most Gryffindor's have found it best to just 
steer clear. (And I'll spare you the quidditch as masturbation 
imagery I started to run with and decided best to delete.) <rbg>

On a more serious note, I agree that we won't get a correlation. 
Alas.

Magpie:
Ha! Yup. But of course, you know what monster symbolizes seduction and sex,
right? Vampires! Interesting that the one we see in canon is at Slughorn's
party--and that he's somewhat played for laughs, which kind of undermines
the potential for fear in ways that isn't done with werewolves. I was
totally pleased to see some of those fanon touches in the way Slytherin was
presented in HBP--Snape had his wine and bookcases, Draco was not only emo
but when Harry walked into the Slytherin compartment there's super sexy
Blaise (the son of a woman who mates and kills!) and Draco draping himself
across Pansy's lap in a frankly sexual pose, with more open sexual
talk--just a whole different approach to the subject ("You're so hard to
please, Blaise..."). I find myself hoping that if they do this scene in the
movie the Slytherin compartment will be accompanied by sitar music or
something.

-m