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Fanon Snape-Hits and Misses

torino10154

6/3/08 01:14 pm

I haven't asked a fanon question yet so how about a general one. There are certain things that are pervasive in fic-he's tall, he wears lots of buttons, he has a mail order potions business hidden from Ministry interference by using the very clever name of Prince's Potions (they'd never suspect a thing!).

So let's talk about fanon hits and misses this week. What do you like about Snape in fic and what just makes you scream?

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• torino10154

  6/3/08 02:19 pm (UTC)

  

  I think the only times he is physical are when Harry comes out of the Pensieve-he is gripping Harry's arm hard enough to bruise, shakes him, threw him from him. Then if you want to say their duel in HBP (which I wouldn't count myself) when Snape hits him with a whip-like spell and he feels the air has been knocked out of him. But I too don't care for Snape being physically violent. I think he uses words as weapons. So, yeah I agree with you.

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  • zephre

    6/3/08 02:29 pm (UTC)

    

    I think that whole physical violence thing feeds into the fanfiction, although I couldn't point out any particular ones. I'm sure that writers were making Snape violent well before the movies came out.
    But the movies give a certain justification to that interpretation.
    Also, in the books we know Snape is an excellent duelist, but I wouldn't have put my money on him in a fistfight, really.
    
    Snape is so much the protector in the books that to see him become the aggressor against his students bothers me.
    Different story, obviously, when he is dealing with those who are not explicitly under his protection or who are not his responsibility.
    
    [The usual caveats/clarifications about the writing making the difference apply. ]

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