Snapeslash - it's official!
Last week I got my copy of 'Mapping The World of Harry Potter', edited by Mercedes Lackey. And OMG is it hilarious! Several sci-fi/fantasy authors have worked on this, some of them extremely well known! I own books written by these people! So, naturally I just had to check it out.
Chapters include:
* The Dursleys as Social Commentary (by Roberta Gellis)
* Neville Longbottom, the Hero with A Thousand Faces (by Martha Wells)
* Hermione Granger and the Charge of Sexism (by Sarah Zettel)
* Why Dumbledore Had To Die (by Lawrence Watt-Evans)
* Ich Bin Ein Hufflepuff (by Susan R. Matthews)
* The Proper Wizard's Guide To Good Manners (by Roxanne Conrad)
* Why Killing Harry Potter is the Worst Outcome for Voldemort (by Richard Garfinkle)
* Harry Potter and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Counselor (by Misty Lackey herself!!)
But the funniest, and the weirdest chapter is To Sir, With Love by Joyce Millman. Subtitle: How Fan Fiction Transformed Professor Snape from a Greasy Git to a Byronic Hero... Who's Really, Really into S/M.
And it's all about Snapeslash! (and Snapehet, but I'm happy to overlook that!) Millman actually references several fanfics ('Love's Labours, Paradise Lost', 'Tea with the Black Dragon' and 'Snape in Love', and mentions AdultFanFiction.net specifically.
"For a sarcastic, hook-nosed, greasy-haired git, Professor Severus Snape sure gets a lot of action. Down in his dungeon apartment at Hogwarts, the Potions Master has a big, curtained bed with silk sheets in Slytherin green or black (the same colors as his silk underwear). He is never lacking for sexual partners: schoolgirls, schoolboys, witches, wizards, prostitutes, colleagues, he has had them all. Snape is an expert lover, seductive and inventively sadistic. He has a secret passion for the tango. He is a stickler for old-fashioned formality. He's also a stickler for old-fashioned discipline, spanking naughty students over his knee (usually before ravaging them on his desk). Severus Snape is living large but, still, he suffers - oh, how he suffers! He is hated, feared, alone. Long ago, he loved a woman. Or a man. Whatever. The point is, it ended badly. But his frozen heart has been thawed by, a) Hermione; b) Harry; c) Draco; d) All of the above. He is heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, omnisexual, a virgin. And oh, yes - he masturbates a lot. In the shower." (BenBella Books, 2005)
Yes!! This *is* Snape! This is the Snape I see in fanfiction all over the place. And now it's been acknowledged officially, in print. I simply can't wipe the grin off my face.
But, you know, I'd *really* like to see someone actually write option d). Snacarrione, anyone??
Cheers
ChrisZ
Chapters include:
* The Dursleys as Social Commentary (by Roberta Gellis)
* Neville Longbottom, the Hero with A Thousand Faces (by Martha Wells)
* Hermione Granger and the Charge of Sexism (by Sarah Zettel)
* Why Dumbledore Had To Die (by Lawrence Watt-Evans)
* Ich Bin Ein Hufflepuff (by Susan R. Matthews)
* The Proper Wizard's Guide To Good Manners (by Roxanne Conrad)
* Why Killing Harry Potter is the Worst Outcome for Voldemort (by Richard Garfinkle)
* Harry Potter and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Counselor (by Misty Lackey herself!!)
But the funniest, and the weirdest chapter is To Sir, With Love by Joyce Millman. Subtitle: How Fan Fiction Transformed Professor Snape from a Greasy Git to a Byronic Hero... Who's Really, Really into S/M.
And it's all about Snapeslash! (and Snapehet, but I'm happy to overlook that!) Millman actually references several fanfics ('Love's Labours, Paradise Lost', 'Tea with the Black Dragon' and 'Snape in Love', and mentions AdultFanFiction.net specifically.
"For a sarcastic, hook-nosed, greasy-haired git, Professor Severus Snape sure gets a lot of action. Down in his dungeon apartment at Hogwarts, the Potions Master has a big, curtained bed with silk sheets in Slytherin green or black (the same colors as his silk underwear). He is never lacking for sexual partners: schoolgirls, schoolboys, witches, wizards, prostitutes, colleagues, he has had them all. Snape is an expert lover, seductive and inventively sadistic. He has a secret passion for the tango. He is a stickler for old-fashioned formality. He's also a stickler for old-fashioned discipline, spanking naughty students over his knee (usually before ravaging them on his desk). Severus Snape is living large but, still, he suffers - oh, how he suffers! He is hated, feared, alone. Long ago, he loved a woman. Or a man. Whatever. The point is, it ended badly. But his frozen heart has been thawed by, a) Hermione; b) Harry; c) Draco; d) All of the above. He is heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, omnisexual, a virgin. And oh, yes - he masturbates a lot. In the shower." (BenBella Books, 2005)
Yes!! This *is* Snape! This is the Snape I see in fanfiction all over the place. And now it's been acknowledged officially, in print. I simply can't wipe the grin off my face.
But, you know, I'd *really* like to see someone actually write option d). Snacarrione, anyone??
Cheers
ChrisZ