Snape Picture of the Week #32



I saw this and just had to post it... I absolutely love the idea of Snape having a daughter, and him taking her to King's Cross... I mean, just look at him, the way he's standing and looking down at her...

Although, I would like this more if his daughter in the picture didn't look like she was spoiled. And I want to know why the heck she has an umbrella. But other than that, I love the picture.

Snape Poem #4

Shakespeare's Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
   As any she belied with false compare.

I thought I'd do this one this week, because Alan Rickman actually recited this poem for a CD of British actors doing Shakespeare's sonnets. Basically this poem is saying that he's not going to lie to himself and say that the woman he loves is perfect, but that doesn't matter because he loves all her imperfections. With that, it's making fun of all the other love poems of that time that would say how perfect their woman was.

A lot of people would say that this is the exact opposite of Snape's feelings toward Lily, since he would say that Lily is the most perfect thing to walk the Earth, but I wouldn't say that's necessarily true all the time. Snape probably admits to himself that Lily was stubborn, unforgiving, and annoyingly cheerful at times, but he loves her anyway.

Plus, I also think this fits very well with how I feel about Snape. People ask me why I like him, even though he was the true hero of the story. Well, yes, I know he made a lot of mistakes. I know that he only switched sides for Lily and would never have done it otherwise. I know he was cruel to Harry and the other students and it couldn't always be justified. But despite his flaws, I still love him. Everyone has flaws, and Snape just has a lot of them.

Fanfiction Friday #32

I'm really tired, so tonight's post won't have much flowery stuff. And I'm sorry for that. But I'll just be getting straight to the point.

My recommendation for this week is An Imperfect Dark Magic, which is a Snape/OC Romance fic, and rated T. I've been reading a lot of Snape/OCs lately, and I really like them. What I especially like in them is the creativity of the OC, and how awesome the stories usually are when the OC isn't a Mary Sue. The girl in this one has very much personality, including many flaws, so you won't be disappointed.

There's 18 chapters so far (and they're short chapters), and it's a WIP. The last update was a month ago, but I'm sure the author'll update soon.

I recommend this fic especially because it's very different than other Snape/OC stories, especially in that the girl isn't really one to 'bring him to the light side'. I've noticed that a lot of OCs are good and hardly have bad intentions, and that bothers me because I think the perfect girl for Snape would have a dark side, and a big one too.

"He looks like he's going ter be sick!"
You cough once--twice--and you cough up--no, not the Snitch, but this link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5655144/1/An_Imperfect_Dark_Magic

Snape Quote of the Week #31

  "You wanted to see me, Headmistress?" said Snape, looking around at all the pairs of struggling students with an expression of complete indifference.
  "Ah, Professor Snape," said Umbridge, smiling widely and standing up again. "Yes, I would like another bottle of Veritaserum, as quick as you can, please."
  "You took my last bottle to interrogete Potter," he said, observing her coolly through his greasy curtains of black hair. "Surely you did not use it all? I told you that three drops would be sufficient."
  Umbridge flushed.
  "You can make some more, can't you?" she said, her voice becoming more sweetly girlish as it always did when she was furious.
  "Certainly," said Snape, his lip curling. "It takes a full moon cycle to mature, so I should have it ready for you in about a month."
  "A month?" squawked Umbridge, swelling toadishly. "A month? But I need it this evening, Snape! I have just found Potter using my fire to communicate with a person or persons unknown!"
  "Really?" said Snape, showing his first, faint sign of interest as he looked around at Harry. "Well, it doesn't surprise me. Potter has never shown much inclination to follow school rules."
  His cold, dark eyes were boring into Harry's, who met his gaze unflinchingly, concentrating hard on what he had seen in his dream, willing Snape to read it in his mind, to understand...
  "I wish to interrogate him!" shouted Umbridge angrily, and Snape looked away from Harry back into her furiously quivering face. "I wish you to provide me with a potion that will force him to tell the truth!"
  "I have already told you," said Snape smoothly, "that I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter--and I assure you I would have the greatest sympathy with you if you did--I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too fast to give the victim much time for truth-telling...."
~Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 32 "Out of the Fire"

I love how, even in the most serious of situations, Snape can still make sarcastic remarks like that. If it weren't for the whole 'not wanting to get on Umbridge's bad side' thing, he'd have been pwning her the entire book. God, Umbridge, don't you know tha Veritaserum is rare? It's not like you can just order it like it's a toy that comes with a Happy Meal...

But he does really stick it to her several times here. It's scenes like this that, while I'm reading it, make me squee and want to kiss the page (which I'll do if I'm not reading in public). Snape is just the embodiment of badassery.

Snape Video of the Week #31

Like Snape

This is my favorite song from Potter Puppet Pals, though it ties with Mysterious Ticking Noise. It's not from any episode, but it was in Yule Ball 2007 (I think). And I didn't want to give you guys a stupid lyric video, so I found a good music video for it.

Just like Snape's button poem from 'Snape's Diary,' this song makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. It's just so accurate in both a funny and sad way. And what's especially sad/funny is the monologue that comes before it in Yule Ball 2007, which is: "Have you ever had a bad day? ...Have you ever felt depressed? Like the forces of the Universe were forging together with the sole purpose of making your life miserable? If you feel like that every day of your life, you must be like... Snape."

And then after the song, Harry and Ron attack Snape by repeatedly pushing him to the ground and going "Bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother bother!" Which, yet again, makes me both want to laugh and cry.

Weekly Snape-ly Event #31

I am very sorry to say that nothing significant has happened in the past week that has anything to do with Snape or Alan Rickman. So, this post is really for nothing, but I figured I ought to give you something. I have Snape news that involves me and mostly me.

If any of you care about RPG worlds, in FormerMiM, Snape is engaged to Professor Sinistra now. My character was distraught... And it led to her getting drunk, her friends trying to comfort her, and then her trying to get them to leave her alone. She hexed one of them and it led to the other girl getting badly hurt, so then she got revenge on my character, who ended up being Apparated to St. Mungo's by Snape. That's all that's happened so far.

And of course, you all know that I've ordered four Snape shirts. They haven't come in the mail yet, though.

This last bit isn't really news, but I suppose I can share it with you anyway. If you like my other Facebook page you might have seen this already. So, I was thinking about Snape in swim trunks, and that led to a fantasy about me and Snape swimming in the Hogwarts Lake, and naturally, that fantasy progressed to us snogging in the lake. But then, I figured that it would be hard to snog while swimming, so Snape or I would come up with the ingenious idea of putting a Bubble-Head Charm on both of us. And that got me thinking whether it's even possible to cast a single Bubble-Head Charm on two people... If it's not, it should be.

Snape Picture of the Week #31

I'm posting this picture neither for sexiness, sadness, hilarity, nor epicness--I'm posting it because it is just a perfect drawing of Snape. I mean, just the slightly creepy way he's smiling, and the look in his eyes, and the way he's folding his arms... Okay, so maybe it's sort of for sexiness. But that's because any picture of Snape is sexy by default.

So yeah, I'm sharing this for accuracy. And I suppose you could say it's so accurate that it's epic.

Oh--and obviously, I didn't draw it. I found it on DeviantArt, and I edited out some parts. It was supposed to be the cover for a Japanese Snarry fic, and so the title and subtitle really wouldn't make sense to you guys. But I just wanted to share the picture.