Snape's Backslide (was Re: Welcome!)

[Kelley]

Argh, had to go afk for a bit and now see that the reply I posted to 
this hours ago never went through.   Yahoomort, sigh.

Ginger:
> That's BackSLIDE, not backSIDE.  Settle down, folks.

Lol!  I'd made mention of is this Snape or is it tinged with 
Rickmania in the first post, but now I'm late as Rita's already 
commented.  I have to say, love Snape, have always found him to be a 
fascinating character, but my mental image of him never 
included 'attractive'.  JKR's drawing of Snape does look a lot better 
than my mental image, though...

> Kelley wondered:
> > but if he does turn out to be a bad guy after all, how would that 
> > affect your affinity for him?

Ginger:
> 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!

Yeah, I know what you mean; I've always believed he *is* on the side 
of good (for very dubious reasons?), but is generally just a 
misanthrope (who does he seem to genuinely like?  He respects DD, I 
think respects McG, but as far as actually liking anyone...) and that 
his natural personality works very well to serve his spy (double-
agent?) role.  (The Draco favoritism, etc.)

Whoo, I am *so* rusty at canon-analysis <g>; this is good motivation 
for a canon (esp. OoP) reread.  Amanda's going to take my LOON badge 
back... ;-)
 
> Ginger, who once threatened to have Kelley named as a deity should 
> I ever enter a polytheistic religion. (Remember that, Kelley?)

ROFL!  I do, though I just put that to your warped sense of humour. 
;-D

--Kelley, valiant Weeble in the battle against Yahoomort...