Snape Fans on Cloud 9

[rattlesnakeroot]

As several of us here predicted last week, there are millions more Snape fans now than before Deathly Hallows opened worldwide. It's really awe-inspiring. I keep asking myself: "Is this my Fandom?" We've never felt as if we had the world on our side before, or even that the movie-makers had anything to say to us. Even people prepared to hate

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[shyfoxling]

I haven't read a single review with the words "creepy" or "obsessive," nor is anyone embarrassed by Snape outpourings of emotion, which some fans like to deride as "being a woobie."

I've noticed that as well and found it rather curious. Did the movie (despite its departures from canon)) validate this viewpoint somehow? Is that it? I mean, now it's cool, now it's okay, or something? (Bitter? me?)

That leads me to an amusing side story floating around fandom as many people are leaving theaters wondering asking whether Snape is actually supposed to be Harry's father. *GASP*

LOL, I know, right? Amusing that they manged to (accidentally? one assumes...) imply this possibility so strongly. I find myself boggled anew, a little, at movie-only fen.

The flashback we've all been waiting for is a gorgeous, wistful sequence in the middle of the film

So I'm not crazy, then. I'll be interested to see where it falls timecode-wise when I get the DVD, but my feeling when I saw it was "gee, they stuck the Prince's Tale right in the middle, didn't

[99nightstar]

For anyone who is interested, the Prince's Tale went for exactly 7 minutes and 24 seconds. I can check later when it came on, to see if it was indeed in the middle, though I doubt it. Likely a little more towards the end

[shyfoxling]

People are less likely to think of "Severus Snape" and "greasy git" in the same sentence any longer

Which is kind of amusing since "greasy git" itself is entirely fanon (I'm curious where and when it arose). The word "greasy" is used several times (mostly for his hair although once for the skin of his temple) and he's referred to as a "git" in a couple of instances, but not even Sirius utters this phrase together. (Ditto "dungeon bat", "greasy bat of the dungeons" etc. The pieces are there, but the specific phrasing is fanon.)

I have known people who don't cry during movies and didn't like Snape very much, yet who fell apart and became a fan from this movie.

That's kind of how the DH book was for me. I mean, I did like Severus. He was my favorite character, it was just very casual. Then after DH, I fell really hard. So if someone was not into the books I can see how they might have had a similar experience.

Theories are being revisited, such as how Snape's hair in the 6th and 7th ones (films and books) is a bit like Harry's; it's

[rattlesnakeroot]

Thanks, 99Nightstar, and welcome! :)

I've seen quite a few old-timers coming back to fandom as well as lots of newbies brought here by the movie. It makes me really happy. :)

[aiffe]

I've been browsing quite a bit of your journal and I like what you have to say, so this is a bit of a stupid first comment, but I just wanted to say that being a woobie isn't deriding! I definitely use it in a positive way. I think it's an inherently positive term--a woobie is a character who suffers so beautifully you both want to give them lots of hugs and see them suffer more (but just, like, because they're so amazing when they're in pain). A character who just gets shat on by the plot but you don't feel affection for is a buttmonkey. TV Tropes says it, it must be true!

If people are misusing the term (and I wouldn't put it past them) it's because fandom in general doesn't seem to know how to cope with emotion that isn't expressed in the form of pure badassery. Sigh, etc.

I think Snape is a woobie, and that's just another way of saying he's a sympathetic character with a lot of angst. All wonderful things in my book.