The thing is that the Snape of the novels is a most unattractive person, greasy-haired, sallow and with a potato nose. And practically every time I get to read a fic, there is this unknown black-haired sex god with smouldering dark hair, sweeping women off their feet and occasionally giving them whole nights of spectacular sex - things that the canon Snape could never in ten thousand years do.
I don't remember the potato-nose specifically, but it's true, the book-Snape is pretty unsavory. Although he has moments when he transcends his physical appearance. And I don't know about canon Snape's *inability* to give a woman a whole night of spectacular sex... though he probably wouldn't want to, or if he did, he'd find the woman in question less then willing.
But really, there are not so many sexually appealing adult males in the book - which is natural taking into account that it's a book for children or young adults. Still, the book has many females readers who are desperately in search for something, anything sexual to sink their teeth into, so they turn to the films. I can't really blame them, especially when the films provide us with so delectable Snapes or Lucius Malfoys.
Well, for that matter, there are few beautiful young women, too. Hermione is described mostly in terms of her messy bushy hair and blazing temper, and all the teachers are older women. Ginny is a kid for much of the story, and even when she blossoms into a formidable and accomplished person, we are never actually told that she is very beautiful. Actually, I think that is one of the strengths of the books - that they concede so little to self-regarding and sexual fantasies.
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Date: 2008-08-22 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-08-22 08:15 pm (UTC)Re: correction
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Date: 2008-08-22 08:25 pm (UTC)But really, there are not so many sexually appealing adult males in the book - which is natural taking into account that it's a book for children or young adults. Still, the book has many females readers who are desperately in search for something, anything sexual to sink their teeth into, so they turn to the films. I can't really blame them, especially when the films provide us with so delectable Snapes or Lucius Malfoys.
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Date: 2008-08-23 01:47 pm (UTC)