# I just found out my wife thinks Severus Snape is hot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574 "2009-07-20T00:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/1 "2009-07-20T00:49:14Z")
…specifically, as portrayed by Alan Rickman in the latest HP movie. Is she a _complete_ freak of nature, or are there others who share this…[snapeish pause]…_sentiment_? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/2 "2009-07-20T00:50:39Z")
Only half the female fan base of the movies. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/3 "2009-07-20T00:51:29Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Only half the female fan base of the movies. :eek: really? Seriously, I had no idea he was findable attractivable. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/4 "2009-07-20T00:57:03Z")
When I was in college (the time of the first two movies), I knew several girls who were crazy about Alan Rickman/Snape. I mean CRAZY. So yeah, your wife’s feelings are not unusual among _HP_ fans. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/5 "2009-07-20T01:11:25Z")
My wife is in that club too. She’s had a thing for Alan Rickman since that Robin Hood movie. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/6 "2009-07-20T01:14:24Z")
I’ve never seen any of the movies or read any of the books, but dark, brooding, long-haired, cloaked Alan Rickman? Yes, please, I’ll take two if you have 'em! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/7 "2009-07-20T01:18:15Z")
Well, of course he is! Who wouldn’t be interested in a tortured soul, a loner who seems to be just begging for some understanding and some compassionate love? Plus he’s well read, funny and mysterious. What’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/8 "2009-07-20T01:19:37Z")
It’s the voice. However . . . ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/9 "2009-07-20T01:29:49Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > I’ve never seen any of the movies or read any of the books, but dark, brooding, long-haired, cloaked Alan Rickman? Yes, please, I’ll take two if you have 'em! …and hey, if you cut his hair and wash out the black dye you’ve got [Colonel Brandon](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/movies/s/sense_and_sensibility/thumbnails/tn2_sense_and_sensibility_1.jpg), so it’s win, win. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/10 "2009-07-20T01:50:06Z")
I _adore_ Alan Rickman. First saw him in that Robin Hood movie and it’s been love ever since. (Never saw _Die Hard_ although I think that’s when he first really came to the attention of American audiences.) Yes to Colonel Brandon, and yes to _Love Actually_ and yesyesyes to _Truly Madly Deeply_. Severus Snape? Not so much, but I know that underneath is really Alan Rickman, so yes. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/11 "2009-07-20T02:54:35Z")
Alan Rickman is hot, and I thought so well before he was Severus Snape. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/12 "2009-07-20T03:00:54Z")
Canon Snape from the book is supposed to be physically unattractive, though, trust me, plenty of women were in love with him long before the movies were made. But Alan Rickman? Who on earth doesn’t find Alan Rickman attractive? (Assuming you find men attractive at all, of course.) His Snape is almost universally considered hot, hot, hot. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/13 "2009-07-20T03:02:31Z")
I would have to agree. I just came back from watching the latest HP movie, and damn if he didn’t look hot as usual. (continues to drool over Alan Rickman) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/14 "2009-07-20T03:06:48Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Alan Rickman is hot… This. Hell, I’m a straight man and I think Rickman is hot. It has nothing to do with anything in the Harry Potter universe. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/15 "2009-07-20T03:07:19Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > :eek: really? > > Seriously, I had no idea he was findable attractivable. Rowling herself is fairly boggled by the whole thing - ditto for the love of Draco. Rickman and Tom Felton (Draco’s actor) obviously deserve most of the…credit? Blame? ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/16 "2009-07-20T03:12:36Z")
If you’re feeling brave, google [“Snapewives”](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snapewives). ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/17 "2009-07-20T03:21:19Z")
Alan Rickman? {{{swoon}}}} ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/18 "2009-07-20T03:29:35Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Plus he’s well read, funny and mysterious. What’s not to like? I should think you would want him to wash his hair. :rolleyes: Rickman made a cool Bad Guy in _Die Hard._ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/19 "2009-07-20T03:31:26Z")
I would have thought the same thing the OP did, until I saw _Sense & Sensibility_. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/20 "2009-07-20T03:40:10Z")
> [@Risha](#): > > Canon Snape from the book is supposed to be physically unattractive, though, trust me, plenty of women were in love with him long before the movies were made. > > But Alan Rickman? Who on earth doesn’t find Alan Rickman attractive? (Assuming you find men attractive at all, of course.) His Snape is almost universally considered hot, hot, hot. You don’t even have to be attracted to men in general to find alan Rickman hot, especially as Snape. He just has something. Perhaps it’s the voice. But Snape has a certain something too, in a bad and wrong way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574.md?page=2)