The name and entire concept of the “Snapewife” has had me cackling to myself for a good fifteen minutes or so reading this blog post and comments of the same. Read more

Slughorn, Umbridge, Hagrid, Malfoy Sr, McGonagall were all 100s for the casting department. Read more

Honestly I don’t think I understood Sirius in the BOOK let alone the movie. That was one of the most underwritten characters that seemed like he was supposed to be VERY IMPORTANT but I never really felt like he actually was... Read more

I was hardcore into the HP online role-playing scene (via Livejournal and then EZBoard), and the only thing we ever did with Snape was have him teach in our annual wizard sex ed class thread, which went about as well as you think it did.
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I did not know about Tim Roth, but he would have been closer to the book Snape for sure. Read more

Definitely see that now that I’ve re-read the article. Read more

Yes. It’s bee happening forever, this is just the version that captured your generation. I’m about 10 years older than you, and have a good friend in her 60's a good 25 years older than me. And we have had this conversation about Bronte, and Wuthering Heights. When I informed her, from my late Gen Xr opinion that… Read more

Sometimes I remember that Snape was supposed to be about 31 in the first book and this just does not mesh with my worldview. Read more

THANK you. I love Rickman but he wasn’t right as Snape. He also wasn’t the age that Harry’s parents would have been if they survived and that always bothered me. Read more

Jane takes off once she realizes Rochester wanted to commit bigamy with her Read more

So true. I also think Lupin was severely miscast but I am biased against that actor in general (couldn’t stand him in Wonder Woman either). Read more

It is true that Rickman made him SO much more likable than he was ever meant to be. Without the movies you likely would not have as many women creepily fawning over Snape. Read more

I’m not surprised. Even Manson had his groupies. Read more

How many times have you heard the phrase “but he can change” or “I can change him”, or similar in real life? Too damn often, I bet. I know I have, usually with something along the lines of “Oh, I just tripped and hit my head on the door”.
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The point is genderizing the concept of nurturing (mostly considered a female trait) and forgiveness gives men allowances they shouldn’t have, it contributes to toxic masculinity. Read more

I always questioned Harry ending up with anyone after the amount of PTSD he would have come out of the books with. He actually died ffs. That has got to mess you up. Read more

I honestly cannot imagine an actor making that kind of choice between the two options. “Let’s see...CGI heavy remake of a 40 year-old movie that was admittedly pretty cheesy, or seven-picture role in the biggest literary sensation in decades... Read more

I would say, though, that Heathcliff and, ahem, Mr. Rochester both fit the brooding, male asshole romantic hero example. But unlike Snapewives, Cathy and Jane Eyre were heroines who both realized the asshole-ishness of these guys and rejected it (Cathy marries Linton, who dotes on her; Jane takes off once she realizes… Read more

Loki (from the MCU) gets romanticized the same way by some female fans. Like, if only they were there to hug him, he’d turn into a good guy. Read more

So I guess I got more hung up focusing more on Snape to notice the overall message of the article ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ll chalk that up to be stuck drinking decaf coffee for the foreseeable future. Read more