No thanks to JKR to making this canon

[the_reda]

If I EVER see another badly written song fic, poem or ficlet featuring EMO!Snape angsting over Lily EVER again on my flist, it will be too soon.

Stop already, we get it: your fav pairing is now canon.

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[dolorous_ett]

Agreed. There are a lot of things that JKR can write because she's a gifted writer - that doesn't mean that someone with no talent and too much emo should attempt it!

[tree_and_leaf]

But to be fair, I feel that any instance of Emo! Snape (esp songfic) should be avoided like the plague.

It's funny what the passage of time has done to 'Angst'. In German it still, strictly, means fear - and in middle high German it meant, specifically, the sweaty, claustrophobic sense of fear coming from being literally or physically hemmed in (it's cognate with the German for 'narrow', 'eng'). Wheras in fandom it means, as far as I can see, being self-indulgently drippy.

*stops being a philological bore to prevent seriously considering writing angst! Snape-fic about his battles with claustrophobia, probably caused by a traumatic encounter with a lift. It might catch on, especially if Lily were involved...*

[seitosilver]

Well, it is nice to know that Angst wasn't originally meant to be self-indulgently drippy.

[hanfastolfe]

Laugh.

I've seen a real rash of new fics that basically boil down to SS/LE forEVAH! and it's all like ooh Snape really wasn't a bad guy and him being a mean spiteful arse to Harry was all Harry's fault anyway and Dumbledore was a shithead and blah blah blah.

Now, granted, the AUs that have SS/LE - and I've seen a few - are pretty well-done. Snape doesn't suddenly become all flower-child and shit, but at least he can actually act like a reasonable facsimile of a human being instead of an incredibly warped spiteful little arsehole, as evidenced by the way he bags on Hermione in GoF just to get a few laughs from the Slytherins.

[jodel_from_aol]

The inital problem here is that we didn't notice that Rowling had plonked a "new Snape" on us at the same time that she gave us a "new Draco" in HBP.

The Smooth!Snape we met in Spinner's End just *isn't* the same one that we were seeing over the course of the first five books. He's the fanon version. We're used to the fanon version, so we didn't notice the substitution. But, really, he comes across rather like he wandered in from Snape Manor and is slumming.

We'd have happily kept him around, but she only really needed him for the one book. Smooth!Snape made a guest appearance in Chapter 1 of DHs, and that's the last we ever saw of him. The one we met in the Shack and for the Prince's Tale was Emo!Snape, and he was a different iteration altogether.

And yet he wasn't the *original* model either. I'm not sure where he came from, but I have a sneaking suspicion that he was on loan from PtQ.

[cmwinters]

*nearly spits hot cocoa

[jodel_from_aol]

Yeah, we have a truly major disconnect in that the socially inept and frankly gormless young looser of 'The Prince's Tale' who is being nagged and browbeaten by the "friend" who is looking for an excuse to dump him, is supposedly the *same person* who was concurrently scribbling down clever little hexes and brilliant potions procedures in the margins of his textbook.

Because the two iterations were presumably occupying the *same time and space*. Even with the greatest of efforts you can only separate them by a few months.

And I frankly do not believe it. I can accept the hopelessly neglected and gauche 9-year-old might have grown into the brilliant Prince of the potions book OR the terminally clueless looser, but not that he would become both of them at the same time.

Unless of course you want to be snotty and claim that having Lily throw him over was the best thing that ever happened to him and he blossomed in her absence...

I laugh at the face of Angst!

[mia_in_chains]

I think Severus Snape is in the cannon a (forgive me the expression) a bastard. Rowling made him a bi-dimensional character and then kept using his less than desirable characteristics as the only side we ever saw of Snape. Personally, I feel that he's more than that.

About the EMO! Snape, well chaps, romantizing things makes them less believable. Severus Snape, the cannon version, even if he had a crush in Lily, wouldn't have suffered all this years with the heartbreak of her marriage with James and death. If he's something, that is strong and independent and wouldn't suffer that much with a heartbreak. That's the way I see him, at least.

Oh, and you know that fanfic is usually not written by professionals so some fanfics have to be of less quality...

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