# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/21 "2009-07-20T03:43:52Z")
Alan Rickman? Yowza! ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/22 "2009-07-20T03:52:28Z")
Alan Rickman- partially responsible for making Snape my favorite character. I don’t think I would have stuck with the series after TOOTP- it was the Half Blood Prince that hooked me again. SNAPE! with Alan Rickman’s voice! WIN/WIN! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/23 "2009-07-20T03:55:57Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > 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? Yeah, I think, in both cases, the actors are more attractive / charismatic than the characters were, as written. (I know that there’s a ton of fan-fic out there in which the authors try to redeem Draco, which Rowling finds amusing, if mistaken: “no, really, he _is_ a bad kid!”) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/24 "2009-07-20T04:20:54Z")
> [@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. That’s because of a certain… writing/interpretation disconnect that, well, [_cough_](http://zorm.deviantart.com/art/Canon-Vs-Fanon-Snape-34384180). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/25 "2009-07-20T05:28:55Z")
I thought originally that they were trying to make him look like Geoffrey Rush. Which was weird, because I was pretty sure they could’ve gotten Rush for the same money… ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/26 "2009-07-20T07:34:18Z")
EWWWW. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Alan Rickman in any movie that I thought he was hot. He was hilarious in Galaxy Quest, but not hot. I would not touch that greasy head of Snapehair with a ten foot pole. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/27 "2009-07-20T07:37:59Z")
Alan Rickman himself is gay, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/28 "2009-07-20T07:56:22Z")
> [@Risha](#): > > If you’re feeling brave, google [“Snapewives”](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snapewives). If you approach the incident with a Google query of “Snape + astral plain” the first result is a pretty good summary of the insane situation. Not that I think liking Alan Rickman as Snape is insane: it’s the marriages on the astral plain I find freakish. Most of my Harry Potter fannish friends adore Snape in canon and fanon both, so it’s a normal situation for me, but Snape always creeped me out. Snape the character is not an attractive man physically or emotionally, even if you amplify his redeemable features. But I can more than understand the Alan Rickman attraction. **Quartz** , IMDB and Wikipedia say that Alan Rickman has been with his Rima Horton since 1965. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/29 "2009-07-20T08:07:17Z")
My wife (and I’m guessing _yours too!_) has the hots for Magnus from _Lazy Town._ Honestly, can I blame her? (Will somebody smarter than me put a link in here? I can’t even bring myself to look for him even if I knew how to post one!) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/30 "2009-07-20T09:21:50Z")
Setting aside the issue of Rickman the movie star, Snape the character is ultimately (and by a long way) the most courageous, heroic, and tragic figure in the whole Potterverse. He puts himself in tremendous danger, over a long period of time through which he has to maintain an iron self-discipline, and ultimately gives his life for the cause of good, and all for the memory of his love of a long-dead woman who, while she was alive, not only did not return his love, but gave her love to a man whom he had good reason to hate. I can see why women might find that hot. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/31 "2009-07-20T10:21:12Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I can see why women might find that hot. It certainly doesn’t detract from things. That voice though. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/32 "2009-07-20T11:00:16Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Rowling herself is fairly boggled by the whole thing - ditto for the love of Draco. Ewwwww! That nasty little twat? Really? ---
**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, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/33 "2009-07-20T12:04:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I should think you would want him to wash his hair. > :rolleyes: Well, of COURSE! But that’s easily fixed–one session in the shower with the 2 of us\* and there you go… 😉 \*that would be Snape and me, not you, me and Snape. 😛 ---
**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, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/34 "2009-07-20T12:07:02Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Setting aside the issue of Rickman the movie star, Snape the character is ultimately (and by a long way) the most courageous, heroic, and tragic figure in the whole Potterverse. He puts himself in tremendous danger, over a long period of time through which he has to maintain an iron self-discipline, and ultimately gives his life for the cause of good, and all for the memory of his love of a long-dead woman who, while she was alive, not only did not return his love, but gave her love to a man whom he had good reason to hate. I can see why women might find that hot. Got it in one–what’s not to fawn over? Add Alan Rickman to that and instant lust–a powerful potion… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/35 "2009-07-20T12:23:21Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Alan Rickman himself is gay, isn’t he? I think you’re thinking of Alan Cummings (Butthead- “Heh heh, you said 'cu…”). And AC, I’m pretty sure, runs the gamut and back. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/36 "2009-07-20T12:26:18Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Ewwwww! That nasty little twat? Really? It’s the haughty-Aryan-masking-a-wounded-child thing. Hell, even I feel kinda bad for the little f\*\*ker even while I wish that Harry, Ron or especially Hermoine would give him a good kick in the nads. ---
**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, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/37 "2009-07-20T12:46:46Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > \*that would be Snape and me, not you, me and Snape. 😛 I’m glad we got that settled. 🙂 ---
**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, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/38 "2009-07-20T13:38:18Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Ewwwww! That nasty little twat? Really? [Really.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DracoInLeatherPants) Sometimes his fangirls think it’s not his fault (it’s his father’s, his mother’s, Voldemort’s…), some of them think he, and other Slytherins, are right (yes, whole racial purity thing and all), etc. Some acknowledge he’s a vile little toad, but think he can be redeemed by The Power of Luuuuuv. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/39 "2009-07-20T13:45:22Z")
I am not and never was a Snape fangirl. He’s a nasty creep. I don’t like Draco either. Alan Rickman, though, is mad sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/40 "2009-07-20T13:56:50Z")
No, **eleanor** ,\* I \*want to wash his hair! Let _me_! _grabs shampoo bottle_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574.md?page=3)