[the_old_crowd] Re: The Beard

[Kat Macfarlane]

Many thanks. That's what I thought. I certainly like him better without the chin rug.

Purrs!

Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!


  Gatta:

  > I have read and reread the original texts and searched the early 
  depictions of Snape, including JKR's own drawing 
  (http://www.katmac.cncdsl.com/Rowling_Snape.jpg), and nowhere do I 
  find a trace of whiskers. (Quite a lot of hair in the case of the JKR 
  drawing, but a well defined chin and as far as I can tell, no beard.) 
  > 
  > Yes, the American illustrator drew Snape with that silly little Fu 
  Manchu beard, but I've always set that down to personal aberration, 
  nothing to do with the Canon. I thought she missed the mark on quite 
  a lot of things, not just Snape's facial fur.

  I remember a while ago (2003?) Grandpre did some sort of event in 
  Salt Lake City and a bunch of HPFGUers went along and asked the hard 
  questions. One of them (Foxydoxy? Dooda? Dicentra?) reported back on 
  OT-Chatter, and as I recall Grandpre was totally nonplussed: she had 
  just assumed all along he had a beard and was astonished to be picked 
  up on it.

  I think the consensus has always been clean-shaven.

  David



   

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