Accio wand! A Harry Potter Feature

I do love Harry Potter. Just sayin...






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Now... Onto my favorite character, Severus Snape.

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Severus Snape and J.K. Rowling's WordsHas the world of fantasy ever produced a character more provocatively mysterious – more dramatic in appearance – more morally ambiguous – more downright compulsive – than Severus Snape? Well, maybe, but it's easy to forget every other character when you're basking in the full glare of his sarcastic sense of humour, his dark, dramatic appearance, and his hard-line approach to classroom discipline.
That's how we came to launch the Spinners--End group. We'd had so much fun reading about this complex, contradictory character that we wanted to share all the images that J.K. Rowling’s well-chosen words had created in our minds. We wanted to help fill in all the blanks she’d left about his background and his motivation. And we knew from experience – because we were die-hard lovers of fan-art and fan-fiction already – that these arts (and, yes, we do think of them as "arts") could create a lively dialogue with the universe of J.K. Rowling Musings on the MuseIt isn't easy to explain why you love Severus Snape to other fans, let alone to the so-called 'normal' people you have to meet every day. To anyone who thinks the books are just for children, you run the risk of seeming emotionally immature, if not definitively insane. But there are lots of good reasons, if people would only open their minds, why Severus Snape obsession is a very understandable, and even logical, phenomenon.   
This essay (mostly new work, but with some excerpts from my DA journal articles as well) is about why he appeals to me, and why he pretty much sums up every good experience I've had with reading in one glorious hook-nosed, greasy-haired package!
First of all, he is everything you admire about text-book villains, but without the unfortunate handicap of being mad or (particularly) murderous. He allows you to be sarcastic, despise the good guys, and still be right. He has all the stylish appeal of the bad guys – the good lines, snappy put



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and just for fun.  


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