"...don't see what all the fuss is about, Igor."
"Severus, you cannot pretend this isn't happening!" Karkaroff's voice sounded anxious and hished, as though keen not to be overheard. "It's been getting clearer and clearer for months. I am becoming seriously concerned, I can't deny it--"
"Then flee," said Snape's voice curtly. "Flee--I will make your excuses. I, however, am remaining at Hogwarts."
Snape and Karkaroff came around the corner. Snape had his wand out and was blasting rosebushes apart, his expression most ill-natured. Squeals issued from many of the bushes, and dark shapes emerged from them.
"Ten points from Ravenclaw, Fawcett!" Snape snarled as a girl ran past him. "And ten points from Hufflepuff too, Stebbins!" as a boy went rushing after her. "And what are you two doing?" he added, catching sight of Harry and Ron on the path ahead. Karkaroff, Harry saw, looked slightly discomposed to see them standing there. His hand went nervously to his goatee, and he began winding it around his finger.
"We're walking," Ron told Snape shortly. "Not against the law, is it?"
"Keep walking, then!" Snape snarled, and he brushed past them, his long black cloak billowing behind him. Karkaroff hurried away after Snape. Harry and Ron continued down the path.
"What's got Karkaroff all worried?" Ron muttered.
"And since when have he and Snape been on first-name terms?" said Harry slowly.
~Goblet of Fire, Ch. 23 'The Yule Ball'
This is going to be another one of those quotes that I break down and analyze.
The first part is in the film adaptation, and I'm disappointed that they didn't include all of it. But it's also one of the things that I can easily imagine him saying in my head... mostly because it's in a famous Snape remix and I've heard it a lot. But also, this has got to really suck for Snape, because he knows Voldemort's coming back, and he knows he's going to have to go back to being a part-time Death Eater soon... It must have been really stressful. It's a miracle he's sane.
And then when he's blasting apart rosebushes... Only hilarity can ensue from that. I can just imagine some teenagers popping out of the bushes going, "We we'ren't making out I swear!" Lol. And now that I think about it, how can you snog in a rosebush? You'd have to lay inside the bush... but wouldn't that hurt because of the thorns? And why are these people making out in bushes anyway? Why not behind a tree or on a bench? Well, you know I'd ask Snape to snog me in a rosebush... The thorns would be worth it.
So when Snape has been blasting snogging teenagers out of bushes and then suddenly sees Harry and Ron, I bet his first thought is, Are they coming out here to snog too? That's what I would have thought... I have a dirty mind. But actually, I don't ship Harry/Ron and I never will. Ron always struck me as the sort of guy who'd be homophobic. Besides, they're just don't have that kind of bromance. Harry/Draco works because they're enemies, and the person you initially dislike usually ends up with you. And really, I can't see Ron with anyone but Hermione. Except maybe Luna... but definitely not Snape. Because Ron/Snape = Rape.
Anyway, Karkaroff twirling his goatee with his finger automatically makes me think of Jafar from Alladin... Karkaroff could totally be Jafar. If Lucius gives him his snake-head staff thing, they'd practically be the same person.
I guess that's it... But just one more thing. I always love reading the Yule Ball chapter because despite the fact that I've never been to a dance and never have, I'd definitely go to the Yule Ball. I mean, it's much better when you're at mother-effing-Hogwarts! And I would ask Snape... I wouldn't make him dance, though, because I hate to dance and I know he would, too... But if he wanted to, I wouldn't mind.
