Ooooh, a lovely article about Severus Snape is in today's Baltimore Sun. I particurly liked this excerpt:

"For a surprisingly large number of Potter fans, mostly adult ones, the fate of the intrepid boy wizard - you know, the one the books are ostensibly about - isn't nearly as interesting as what will happen to his ex-professor. The double-crossing Death Eater. Murderer of the beloved Headmaster Dumbledore. Greasy-haired, yellow-toothed, cuttingly sarcastic and, in the words of his creator, "deeply horrible."

The article goes on to say:

"Oh, sure, there's a school of thought that blames all the Snape love on hormones and Alan Rickman, the actor with the seductive voice who plays him in the movies - the fifth of which, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is due in theaters in July. Rickman comes with a fan base, and whoever decided to put him in that repressively buttoned-up Victorian get-up seemed to understand how that would affect adult women. We do seem to be Snape's biggest fans."

And further:

"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death," he says to his new students in the first Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and we thought, cool. A closet poet, our Snape, and frequently funny in an awful, I-can't-believe-he-said-that way. People identify with this thirtysomething man stuck in a hated job, who never gets credit for his good efforts, who is irritable and quick to judge and deeply human." [hmmmm...that last sentence sounds familiar!]

Finally, although this has nothing to do with Snape, it is Harry Potter related. In my photography class last Thursday, the instructor was talking about how he liked a balance of dark & light in photos. During the discussion he said, "I like to see serious black in a photo."...and I cracked up quietly to myself ;-)

I really do wish I could agree with you on Snape but there is Nothing about him, his character or the actor that plays him that does anything for me. I have tried to picture him naked even.....nothing. I am sorry :(

*runs away and hides after Sue's comment*

[lol Laura, honey, not everyone has to agree with me!-Janet]

*Laughs at Laura's comment!*

I just reread "Order of the Phoenix" just so I'm ready for the movie....I can't wait. But after I finished I felt I needed to reread "Half Blood Prince" again...so I'm reading that again now. It's an addiction I tell you!!

I think I would have laughed too. You should do a project on "Serious Black" - get in good with the prof ;)...and you could make all the titles sort of puns on HP characters! It'd be genius!

um, ok, so maybe kind of nerdy but still genius. ;)