I'm about to pull my hair out. Needing a short break from writing I decided to look for new (to me) fics. After about the fifteenth summary I read that was ruined at the end with a "SS/HP" or "Severitus" or "Snape!Guardian" etc etc I started feeling ill. When I hit #30 of interesting plot ideas ruined by the inclusion of Snape as anything other than fodder and I started bashing my head into the desk.

Why in the name of every god, of every culture to ever exist, does this facination with a worthless and overbearing character exist? Why must good plot concepts be ruined by the contorted and pathetic attempts to include a character whose single purpose should be to die horribly and then never be spoken of again?

/rant off


PS: To anyone following The Legacy of Ancients the next chapter will include Snape. Briefly.

 

Simple answer: Alan Rickman.

 

I was going to blame Gary Coleman myself.

 

Whachoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?

I dunno about the Snape thing though. I guess it started with one fic, then went downhill from there. This is why scientists need to start getting crackin' on time machines. If we can just destroy that one fic from happening, we will save the fictionverse as we know it!

 

I think it'll take a lot more than destroying one fic to save the fictionverse. Much like the plague there are many forms and too many carriers to wipe out.

 

Although if we flame the first couple hard enough there is a chance (However slight) of deterring some of the others... Nah, who am I kidding. we'd have to stop the movies altogether...

...Hmm

 

Because like Snape is so sexy, with his skin the shade of sick daffodils, and eyes like creepy little beetles, and that nose that looks like an upside down coathanger. How could any obsessive fangirl resist Batman the Dungeon Dweller?

 

Well. I certainly feel ill now.

I can't help but wonder though if the Sheriff of Nottingham became the same sort of "oh he's really a good guy" character after Rickman filled the roll in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?


Edit: Oh wait. That was a Costner film so it had no fans to write fanfiction. My bad.

 

Snape as Batman the Dungeon Dweller, huh?
That might explain it, if Harry was made into a sidekick... no, there's no explanation... the sense of Snape's life is to die in the most painful way.
Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if he has some kind of antropophobia with his attitude to people, being the most antisocial person in the whole Potterverse and all.

 

So you say. At the moment this is just below "Big Foot" on my "Things said to exist, but without proof" list.

 

I quite liked Stronger than Hope by Alaunatar - a mentor relationship that wasn't sappy, had no "warning: spanking" warnings, and had a quite refreshing Dark Harry.

-J

 

Sigh, i remeber reading one recently where Snape ended up Harry's real dad becuase he raped lily and a bunch of other girls after raiding hogsmede or something..... And within like 2 days of finding out Harry's already warming up to him.... I mean wtf oh he raped my mom but its ok hes my dad i should give him a chance even though i hated his guts before hand too....

/wrist

 

It would be interesting to read a Severitus fic were Harry finds out Snape raped is mother and rather then going all "I love you daddy" decideds to abandon his pursuit of killing Voldemort and goes after Snape instead.

Snape: "Harry...I am your Father."

Harry: "I know you bastard! Avada Kedavra!"

Snape: *dies*

I actually quite enjoy Snape as a character. He's a twisted fuck who is totally out for himself and plays both sides of the other. I like that. He is much to interesting to just kill off.

 

....Does this man find love.... in grease?

/runs off to find grease.

 

I agree with you. I always enjoy stories where Harry plays a role on both sides, pretending to be either good or evil while doing things for his own gain. Snape is a prick with greasy hair that can read your mind who does the same thing. Not as bad as Harry and Draco going to town on broke-back mountain in buttless chaps

 

I always thought that people who put Snape in a good light are people that got bullied in school. And for some reason they forgot to read the part about the cursing went both ways.

So they see Snape to be s missunderstood person instead of the annoyingly arrogant git that he is.

 

It's the same people that believe that there's good in everyone and that people can change for the better.

What fools these mortals be.

 

Mind if I quote that last sentence? That is ****ing brilliant.

QFT