[the_old_crowd] Snape's Backslide (was Re: Welcome!)

[silmariel]

quigonginger wrote:
> I'm sure whichever way JKR goes, she'll do it well, but personally I
> hope he is on the side of good.  If he turns out to be ESE, then all
> those great lines are just meanness, and not a warped sense of
> humour, which I love as I have one too, but can only use around
> certain people.  And we get nasty!

Thanks for such a warm welcome :)

This will need further explanation and ties with Catlady's remarks.

<<A very popular topic.
There were quite a few women obsessed with him on Main List before 
the movie was even cast, so it is not all Rickman effect. Amanda, of
course, signs herself 'Snapeologist' and claims her fascination is all
intellectual, not erotic, but Dinah proclaimed that Severus is a
lovely name, she wouldn't mind naming her son Severus, in fact she
would like to name him Severus Snape, Jr.>>

I love the force and resources that this character can display. And the 
speeches, he wouldn't be attractive for me without his words. I read PS half 
a year before the release of the film, so it's not Rickman in my case.

I'd prefer him evil than uncoherent, if I have to choose. Whatever makes Jo 
with him, I don't want Snape acting OOC, and it is so easy to see him evil 
that I wouldn't mind. Quite another thing if (or when) our lovely lupin turns 
loose.

As an example, I'd be quite shocked if Lucius Malfoy sees the light and is 
turned into an all-loving person, and would demand my cruel, pureblood Lucius 
right back.

The couple of details are:  'Who would want to be in love with Snape?' and 
'after something about him you will discover'

Mmm if he is evil and ends murdering DD nothing to explain, really. If he is 
not, and she is referring to the nasty past life he should have, that's 
another question, because DD has been told his story and accepted it, so she 
has to build a past that justifies both lines, the 'who would want him? ' and 
DD's excuses for him.

Worst scenario for me, here? One I doubt she'll use, but... slaying your own 
family, or letting that happen. If she can get him out of *that* mess, I'll 
applaud. Not that we don't have precedents, as Arthur trying to burn Ginevre. 
Not entering on motives, imperios or especulations, the betrayal between the 
pair theme is there. 

And this question is so... subversive ... come on Jo, it is not a question of 
wanting to, those are the kind of things that can just happen... as curses, 
sometimes.  And it's not as if Snape has a neon warning he is an evil git, at 
least I doubt he had it in his teens. No, liking the dark arts doesn't count 
for me, I try to see from a not-Gryffindor pov.

Carolina
P.S. Carolyn, you don't know how glad I am that you've decited to 'out' the 
Catalogue, at least here... It's been so many months *not* talking of it <g>