An interesting and insightful read on the professor JK fashioned Snape after.

[celestialbeing1]

This is old so I'm sure it's been read before, but for those who've not read it, read it and couldn't find it, or whatever the case, it's still amazing.

http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/Fanfic/A_true_original.htm

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[droxy]

sharing this

[celestialbeing1]

It it sooo good and just how I've pictured Severus.

[delphipsmith]

(Read this via droxy's link, so am copying my comments here.)

Fascinating! An incredibly detailed and intriguing analysis. I went a bit sniffly at the end; he sounds like quite a remarkable and lovely person. These two points in particular stood out:

Rowling's characters are manifestations of thoughts in her head and if she says that a particular character would act in a particular way, that's how it is, but I do not see that we have to share her moral evaluation of her characters' behaviour. A canon-compatible Snape cannot be so cloyingly saintly that Rowling couldn't have mixed feelings about him, whether we share her ambiguity or not...

To me as a pagan one of the most striking things about Snape is that he is the only character in the stories who comes across as what I would consider to be a real wizard...rather than a storybook character waving a wand. There is something powerful and shamanic in the way Snape keeps Harry safely on his broom in the first book by locking eyes on him and chanting, or sings Draco's wounds shut in the

[celestialbeing1]

I seriously have no idea about that fiercely anti-intellectual bit because I've come across some whom are soo pedantic...sooo analytical to a point where you want to politely ask them to shut up before they ruin things for you lol

But I'm glad Droxy told me to post this to LJ because it was a great read, and I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

[droxy]

"soo pedantic...sooo analytical to a point where you want to politely ask them to shut up before they ruin things for you lol" This...and its not just potter fandom

[celestialbeing1]

Oh wise Droxy, so it's not just me annoyed with this? Sometimes I feel like they're just being cynical and want to ruin things for others!! There's analysing...then there's nit-picking and ripping apart.

[lemonade8]

I really liked this, thanks for sharing. I do think, though, that EQUATING him with Snape piece by piece isn't giving Jo enough credit for just being inspired by some aspects of him. She has crafted a fictional character and has used bits and pieces of people because of her life experiences. I remembered how she said once that only one character was completely based on a real person and that was Lockheart. She had seemed regretful that people were harassing this Mr. Nettleship for 'being Snape' and wouldn't out any more of her inspirations because of it.

And 'Snape' liked Hermione? Excellent! See, we always knew.