Snape Quote of the Week #32

  Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin.
  It happened very suddenly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes--and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead.
  "Ouch!" Harry clapped a hand to his head.
  "What is it?" asked Percy.
  "N-nothing."
  The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. Harder to shake off was the feeling Harry had gotten from the teacher's look--a feeling that he didn't like Harry at all.
  "Who's that teacher talking to Professor Quirrell?" he asked Percy.
  "Oh, you know Quirrell already, do you? No wonder he's looking so nervous, that's Professor Snape. He teaches Potions, but he doesn't want to--everyone knows he's after Quirrell's job. Knows an awful lot about the Dark Arts, Snape."
  Harry watched Snape for a while, but Snape didn't look at him again.
~Philosopher's Stone, Ch. 7 "The Sorting Hat"

Okay, so technically this is the first time we're introduced to Snape. He doesn't actually speak, but when you go back and re-read the series, you see a lot more meaning in it.

First, though, I'd like to know how Harry can tell that Snape's hair is greasy from across the Great Hall. For Harry to be close enough to see that Snape's hair is shiny (among other things that would tell you a person's hair is greasy) and deduce that it's also greasy, he'd have to be no less than twenty feet away. I don't think his seat at the Gryffindor table would be that close to the Staff Table.

Then, of course, this is the first time Snape's ever actually seen Harry in his years of teaching and waiting for the boy to come to Hogwarts so he could protect him. Snape's heart must have stopped when he saw how extraordinarily he looked like his father, and yet still had Lily's eyes. And right there, Snape looks at Harry's eyes, and he's probably struggling hard not to stare at them forever, because they're Lily's eyes, which he hasn't seen in at least thirteen years.

It sucks that Snape has to be portrayed as a potentially bad character so early on. :/

Snape Video of the Week #32

Snape - The Remus Lupins

Even though this song is a totally 'I Hate Snape' song, I like it and it's pretty catchy. It's one of The Remus Lupin's only two songs about Snape, the other one being 'The Fate of Severus Snape,' which I don't like. Besides, this was written before the last book came out, so I can't really blame him or anyone else for not trusting Snape then, even though I did.

Also, sorry there's no lyrics, but I couldn't find a lyrics video for this song.

Weekly Snape-ly Event #32

No particularly Snapey stuff today, but I have a bit of Alan Rickman news. The Song of Lunch, which was a short made-for-tv film Alan starred in will be airing on PBS on November 13. This is apparently exciting because it's never been aired except on BBC before. But it was on Youtube for a while before it got taken down, and you can still watch it on movie sites, so it's not as big a deal for me. But it's all that I could find, so here's the link to the article: http://www.britscene.com/2011/09/alan-rickman-emma-thompson-star-song-of-lunch-coming-pbs-november-take-sneak-peak/28365

One more thing, but it's only HP related. There's an Anglo fan favorites poll for women, and the four in the semi-finals are all HP women. It's Emma Watson v. J.K. Rowling and Helena Bonham Carter v. Maggie Smith. It's a pretty hard choice, but I definitely voted for J.K. Rowling in the first one. I mean, without her, Emma wouldn't even be famous in the first place! http://blogs.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/23/vote-for-the-anglo-fan-favorites-women-of-2011-a-very-harry-potter-semis/

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.