Drive-by Link: Why Ladies Love Severus Snape

[kerravonsen]

http://retrolife.typepad.com/the_overexamined_life/2010/09/why-ladies-love-severus-snape-a-detailed-primer-chock-full-of-spoilers-in-case-you-care.html

Comments

[sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com]

Thanks for giving me a huge chuckle! Actually, Alan Rickman may be old enough to be most fans' father or grandfather, but Snape isn't. At the end of the last novel, when he dies, he's still only a young man in his thirties. In fact, I'm probably old enough to be SNAPE'S Mum.

Does all this remind you of anyone? Dark, mysterious, velvety voice to die for, nobody likes him in his own place, but the fan girls do? Brave, but keeps it hidden behind a sneer? Yeah. A certain Kerr Avon. :-)

[kerravonsen]

Of course! (grin) Avon, Snape, Mr Rochester, Mr Darcy...

[sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com]

Ah, but *Jane* likes Mr Rochester from very early on! She only leaves him because she doesn't really like the idea of being his bigamous wife! ;-)

[madeleone]

Heee! I loved this, and it's all so true. I've bookmarked this just in case I ever need a back-up source to explain my obsession with Snape. ;-)

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Mostly true. The only one I'd debate is "jerk". Yes he's snarky and can be mean, on the other hand he also risks all for others. Jerks, are at heart self-centred and don't give a fig for anyone else.

[kerravonsen]

True, but what word would you use for someone who is "rude to everyone else except their true love"? Since that was the context in which they were using the word "jerk". Someone who gets away with saying the mean things one wishes that one could say...

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I suppose it depends on your definition of "jerk".
Mine tends to encompass the selfish male who uses people for his own pleasure and entertainment.
The sort who married to one woman, sleeps around.
In short someone without an ounce of real caring in them. That's not Snape, by any stretch of imagination. Besides if he was really a jerk neither Mcgonagall nor Albus would tolerate him.

[kerravonsen]

I agree that "Jerk" is the wrong word. There just doesn't seem to be a right word. 8-(

[sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com]

True. And they both actually quite like him. McGonagall shares jokes with him. Dumbledore trusts him, after he returns from the dark side.