Did you LIKE Snape?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183160


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> Montavilla47:
> I don't have such a negative view of Lily love being the *only*
known driving force.  It wasn't negative before DH, anyway.  And the
only reason it's unpalatable to me now is because he simply wasn't a 
very attractive sweetheart.  Which, come to think of, JKR warned us
about.  ("That's a very horrible thought.  Who would want to be in 
love with him?")
> 
> No, he's most unattractive, with the hungry eyes and open-mouthed,
> panting intensity.  Too needy.  Too clingy.  If you are going to
invest in a ship, you sort of want the lovers to have chemistry.

Pippin:
I think you are being a little hard on Snape here. He was awkward and
needy, but that doesn't make him any worse than Ron at about that age.
Remember GoF Ron, with his Uranus jokes, "pounding his pestle" in
potions class? I wouldn't want GoF Ron in love with me, either. Of
course canon!Snape will never compare as an fantasy boyfriend to
fanon!Snape, created for that purpose. Here we were, hopefully
imagining a dark Byronic figure, and we got Caliban instead. But most
of JKR's teenage boys have a touch of Caliban in them -- only Riddle
was never awkward. But then he was incapable of shame.

Leah:
He calls her a mudblood in a moment of fury and humiliation, while 
she, his supposed best friend, flirts with his tormentor.

Pippin:
And this seems too hard on Lily. Harry did not perceive Lily as
flirting with James in SWM.  We can see that she's attracted to him,
but as has been remarked, people can't help who they're attracted to.
It's James, not Snape, whom Harry suspects of courting Lily against
her will. 

Pippin