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Reminder - Literary Snape

the_bitter_word

4/19/09 09:12 pm

I recently finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and was inspired to quickly draw Snape in the scene where Huck watches the Duke and the King practice the sword fight in Richard III. Here it is, serving as a mid-contest reminder:



Now with ArtPad, to see how a real non-artist does it.

The text: It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble.

Literary Snape ends May 2. There are already some great entries, but please don't hesitate to put Snape in any book you want. Because if you're a true Snape obsessive, you'll even find him described in Huckleberry Finn.

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• bohemianspirit

  4/19/09 05:39 pm (UTC)

  

  Because if you're a true Snape obsessive, you'll even find him described in Huckleberry Finn.
  
  Oh. My. God. Substitute black suit for white suit, and you've got Snape, down to a T. Add Mark Twain to Rowling's list of influences, eh? :-D
  
  

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  • the_bitter_word

    4/19/09 08:44 pm (UTC)

    

    And the name Grangerford?
    
    

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    • bohemianspirit

      4/21/09 06:06 pm (UTC)

      

      Heh. I overlooked that one, though I suppose people of a certain ship persuasion caught it right away. ;-)

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      • the_bitter_word

        4/21/09 09:47 pm (UTC)

        

        There's also the reference to himself as a mudcat, meaning lowborn. I don't know how common phrases with mud in them are, however.
        
        

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• severed_lies

  4/19/09 08:00 pm (UTC)

  

  That excerpt cuts off the description of Lucius' pimp cane! Love your young "dream" Severus taking the full measure of the gentlemen in question.

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  • the_bitter_word

    4/19/09 08:47 pm (UTC)

    

    Yes... a silver what? (As if Severus would carry a pimp cane, or wear a hat, for that matter.)
    
    

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• shyfoxling

  4/19/09 09:02 pm (UTC)

  

  Because if you're a true Snape obsessive, you'll even find him described in Huckleberry Finn.
  
  That.. is frickin' uncanny, that is. There is seriously some larger archetype going on here, I swear.

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  • the_bitter_word

    4/19/09 09:19 pm (UTC)

    

    I think Snape fits into the physical archetype of the British-U.S. witch, myself, but, yeah, there are ghastly thin, pale males dressed in black all throughout Western literature, many of them clerics and clerks.
    
    Snape's similarities to Grangerford are purely physical, except ... well, there's his temper, and there's a longstanding feud... I don't want to say too much.
    
    

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    • bohemianspirit

      4/21/09 06:07 pm (UTC)

      

      but, yeah, there are ghastly thin, pale males dressed in black all throughout Western literature, many of them clerics and clerks.
      
      Or undertakers?
      
      *visions of Severus Snape working at the funeral parlor in The Loved One*

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      • the_bitter_word

        4/21/09 10:56 pm (UTC)

        

        I loved that book, too.
        
        

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• hirschkuh

  4/29/09 03:53 am (UTC)

  Snape and Huck Finn - what a nice find - and that quote, that is so fitting...
  and the drawing is (as allways) superb - poor little naked Snapey :(
  

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  • the_bitter_word

    4/30/09 11:55 am (UTC)

    

    Thanks. Actually, Huck was naked a great deal of the time on the raft. It was one of the joys of being free from civilization.
    
    I probably should have dressed VM and DD in the costume of the time, too.
    
    

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