Snapedom essay: Sexy Snape?

[geri_chan]

The theme for Snapedom's February Challenge was "Is Severus Sexy?" (Need we really ask? ^_^) Check out the awesome banner that I got for my essay, titled "Sexy Snape?"! This banner has special fan art very generously contributed by Expel_Hun; the picture is called "Naked Snape".

Now I've got to hurry and finish my March entry, which will be on Snape and Voldemort!

Comments

[lawless523.livejournal.com]

I'm not on IJ and don't need more excuses for spending time on the web to justify joining, so I'll leave my two cents here.

I found Snape a pitiable but noble character rather than an admirable or a detestable character (or sexy either). I had some inkling that his ties to Lily might be the reason behind his behavior but still found the reveal very moving. If he'd been less socially awkward, more able to communicate his feelings directly to Lily and less prejudiced about wizards vs. Muggles, maybe he would have had a chance with her. Then again, James was more conventionally handsome and more of an open risk-taker.

I view Lily as not his first love but his only love. His unrequited love for her is what enabled him to doublecross Voldemort and continue to pretend to be a Death Eater.

I feel some of the commenters (I read some, not all of them) let their love and affection for Snape overtake the actual text, even taking into POV biases into account. Objectively, he is harder on the Gryffindors than is fair; think of the time he gave Slytherin permission to use the Quidditch field for practice when Gryffindor had signed up first.

And lookswise? It's the greasy hair that might do me in. Depends on how greasy he keeps it. Alan Rickman makes an excellent Snape, and he does have a sexy voice. He also is very bright and more Machiavellian than, say, Professor McGonagall, but the manipulative type doesn't particularly appeal to me.

[geri-chan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your comments! I think that Snape-sexiness is more fanon than canon, but still...there's something about him that draws all us Snape fangirls to him. Might be the hurt/comfort thing--he's had such a miserable life that I kind of want to give him a happy ending, romantically and otherwise.

Hmm, somehow the manipulative type seems to appeal to me, at least in fiction, since Onozuka is one of my favorite characters! ^_^