Just how nasty is Severus Snape? The case from The Prisoner of Azkaban

[strange_complex]

On Monday night, I finished reading Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. I had a couple of questions in mind when I started reading this book. One, about how Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban, was quickly and easily answered. The other was already bigger when I first asked it. It hasn't been completely resolved by reading the book, but I now

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[meerium]

(yeah, i know the icon's one of yours, i just couldn't use anything else!)

i'm thoroughly enjoying reading your thoughts as you go through the harry potter books! i enjoy reading them for pretty much the same reasons as you, and find these aspects of the books fascinating. i also recommend a lot of the articles on the red hen site - quite a lot of interesting food for thought there.

[strange_complex]

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it! Even though I haven't actually read books 4 and 5 yet, reading book 3 in the light of what I know from web-sites and friends is revealed in the later books is really cool.

As for Red Hen, definitely - I am slowly working my way through it, reading an article here and there in a lunch break.

And I am always glad to see Snape icons, wherever they've come from!

[meerium]

oh yes, and i also share the alan rickman issue! film snape, you so *would*. book snape, euuuwww no. i think i read on joanne rowling's site that she's finding it quite funny that people are claiming to fancy both snape and lucius malfoy, when it's clearly 'them as portrayed by fochsy actors' that people are lusting after. i guess also, it's why a lot of people actually can write snape/hermione fanfic.

[strange_complex]

Entirely! Book-Snape = greasy, long-nosed, generally nasty. Film-Snape = damn sexy! (Alan Rickman's wig doesn't look greasy to me at all).

There is a picture somewhere out there of JKR holding a sketch she did of how she imagines book-Snape, in which he really looks not attractive at all. But I can't seem to track it down for you just now... :(

[strange_complex]

Ha! I tracked down that sketch of Snape by Rowling!

That might just need to be iconised, methinks...

[meerium]

that would be ace! also, i mentioned further down on the thread to innerbrat about the m15m version of harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban? you should read it for a giggle, it's a 'movie in 15 minutes' version of the film, and it is very, very funny indeed.

[strange_complex]

Yeah, I noticed your comment and I did! 'Twas cool.

[strange_complex]

Have just turned JKR's sketch into a groovy icon!

I've also edited the original post so that this is now the icon for it, since it's now by far the most appropriate icon I have for this.

[meerium]

ace!