# 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:** 3
**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, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/41 "2009-07-20T14:08:13Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > No, **eleanor** ,\* I \*want to wash his hair! Let _me_! _grabs shampoo bottle_ Better hurry. šŸ™‚ ---
**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, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/42 "2009-07-20T14:11:15Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > and ultimately gives his life for the cause of good Well, I have not yet read the last book because I was waiting for it to come out in paperback, which it _just_ did. Thanks for not putting that in a spoiler box. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/43 "2009-07-20T14:34:36Z")
> [@SkeptiJess](#): > > I am not and never was a Snape fangirl. Heā€™s a nasty creep. I donā€™t like Draco either. > > Alan Rickman, though, is mad sexy. I get the impression that this is far closer to the norm than people who really like Snape for Snape. Yes, there are -some- of the latter, because there are crazies out there who think \ is the Hottest Thing Ever, even if itā€™s Frankensteinā€™s Monster, but Alan Rickman has a large and swoon-filled following. šŸ˜‰ Heā€™s also pretty darn enteraining, so itā€™s hard to be annoyed. šŸ˜‰ ---
**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, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/44 "2009-07-20T14:38:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > My wife (and Iā€™m guessing _yours too!_) has the hots for Magnus from _Lazy Town._ [Sportacus](http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2009/04/sportacus.jpg)? I donā€™t know - the mustache is kind of a turnoff. ---
**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, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/45 "2009-07-20T17:21:03Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > I get the impression that this is far closer to the norm than people who really like Snape for Snape. Yes, there are -some- of the latter, because there are crazies out there who think \ is the Hottest Thing Ever, even if itā€™s Frankensteinā€™s Monster, but Alan Rickman has a large and swoon-filled following. šŸ˜‰ Yeah, I donā€™t remember Snape being an especially beloved character until the first movie. I knew _Harry Potter_ fans in college prior to the release of the first movie (a big group of us went to see it on opening night), but I am fairly certain no one ever mentioned having a thing for Snape until the role was associated with Alan Rickman. Some people liked the Snape character before then because they thought he was interesting (whose side was he really on, Dumbledoreā€™s or Voldemortā€™s?) or they enjoyed his sarcasm, but they didnā€™t think he was _sexy_. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/46 "2009-07-20T17:27:48Z")
Just throwing my hat into the Severus Snape _as played by_ Alan Rickman is sexy. The character in the book is not sexy but I think he is more sympathetic than even Rowling intended as mentioned in a spoilery post earlier. Alan Rickman was the only good thing about that Robin Hood movie, I keep rooting for him to win every time I see it. Yes, he was evil, ruthless and a total jerk but he was damn sexy doing it. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/47 "2009-07-20T17:41:59Z")
Saw the movie on Saturday and all I could think to myself was ā€œAlan Rickman is steaming hotā€. I think other stuff happened in the film, am I right? Someboday dies? Canā€™t remember, really. Makes me want to write really bad BD/SM fanfic, though. Just kidding about the plot memory-lapse, but when heā€™s standing in his study in that long, perfectly pressed, immaculate coat and that cold, domineering sneerā€¦ ahh. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/48 "2009-07-20T17:43:38Z")
I just have to post to represent the apparent 2% of the female population who doesnā€™t find Alan Rickman sexy. He does have a lovely voice, but the rest of him doesnā€™t appeal to me. I donā€™t go for bad boys. Exhibit A: my balding, glasses wearing, adorable, total nice guy, boy next door of a husband. šŸ˜‰ oh and Snape isnā€™t appealing as a character either. Iā€™ve read all seven books. Heā€™s still one of the bad guys to me. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/49 "2009-07-20T18:18:31Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > Well, I have not yet read the last book because I was waiting for it to come out in paperback, which it _just_ did. Thanks for not putting that in a spoiler box. > > _sigh_ The last book came out _two years_ ago. I think thereā€™s a statute of limitations with spoiler boxes. Plus, itā€™s not like ā€œwaiting for the paperbackā€ is a normal reason not to read a book. For two years. When thereā€™s a million copies in the library. And a million Potter fanboys/girls willing to lend a copy. You might as well demand that everyone in the Star Wars thread not say how the last movie ended because youā€™re waiting for George Lucas to release a non-shitty version. ---
**Author:** ![Typo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Typo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/50 "2009-07-20T18:22:19Z")
Snape has a certain dark appeal, agreed, but I preferred Lucius Malfoy in the first few movies. What a sneer. _shiver_ Havenā€™t seen any of the later ones to see how he holds up. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/51 "2009-07-20T19:33:07Z")
> [@Endiqua](#): > > Snape has a certain dark appeal, agreed, but I preferred Lucius Malfoy in the first few movies. What a sneer. _shiver_ Havenā€™t seen any of the later ones to see how he holds up. Oh yeah, how could I forget Luscious ā€¦ I mean Lucius? Snapeā€™s hair you want to shampoo, Luciusā€™ hair you want to brush, maybe braid a little. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/52 "2009-07-20T19:56:52Z")
Iā€™m a straight guy, and it still wasnā€™t any great surprise to me that women find Alan Rickman hot. And even without finding him hot myself, I can certainly acknowledge that heā€™s a damn fine actor (I sill think he got snubbed on the Best Supporting Oscar the year the first movie came out). ---
**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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/53 "2009-07-20T20:52:27Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Oh yeah, how could I forget Luscious ā€¦ I mean Lucius? Snapeā€™s hair you want to shampoo, Luciusā€™ hair you want to brush, maybe braid a little. After Pete Abrahms repeatedly made that joke in Sluggy Freelance, every time my wife and I watch one of the HP movies that feature Lucius, when he shows up on screen, one of us has to lean over to the other and whisper, ā€œLuscious Malfoy.ā€ šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/54 "2009-07-20T21:06:10Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > I just have to post to represent the apparent 2% of the female population who doesnā€™t find Alan Rickman sexy. He does have a lovely voice, but the rest of him doesnā€™t appeal to me. If you were Miss Dashwood instead of Miss Woodhouse, you would eventually come to appreciate him. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/55 "2009-07-20T22:24:40Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > I _adore_ Alan Rickman. First saw him in that Robin Hood movie and itā€™s been love ever since. (Never saw _Die Hard_ although I think thatā€™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. i saw him first in die hard but was very busy looking at mr. gudinov. i did find one scene in the half-blood prince very much the same as one in die hard, mr rickman was involved in both, but in very different ways. lucius malfoy does have the best hair. and there is a rather good fanfic where draco is changed a bit by the power of luuuurve. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/56 "2009-07-20T22:40:12Z")
Something for the fans of Snape. [Not a Rickroll.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4) ---
**Author:** ![Myrrajh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Myrrajh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrrajh)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/57 "2009-07-20T23:25:30Z")
Oh, most definitely. Heā€™s intense. Heā€™s a thinker. I love his eyes, his voice, how he swoops out of a room with that most awesome cloak billowing behind him. Heā€™s justā€¦misunderstood. šŸ™‚ Alan Rickman is hot in anything (well, except Galaxy Quest. That jumpsuit did nothing for me) but as movie Snape (no greasy hair) heā€™s yummy. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/58 "2009-07-21T02:40:57Z")
Iā€™d do him in a micro-second. Iā€™d jump him before even a naked Daniel Radcliffe. Even Mr. Salinqmind understands my dark lust and told me to go right ahead. šŸ˜ƒ Leg-humping ā€˜nice guys who canā€™t get anyā€™ probably donā€™t understand the appeal of a Severus Snape to manymanymany women. I imagine doing the deed would be a cold, brisk, painful, yet oddly vulnerable, humbling, and addictive Gothic experienceā€¦ Reading in Wikipedia - I found it interesting that Alan Rickman was J.K. Rowlingā€™s first choice for Snape. It also says she met with Alan Rickman before she finished the Harry Potter series to discuss with him how the character of Snape should finally turn out :eek: I think if true that is awesome! And Alan Rickman is definitely not gay! Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/59 "2009-07-21T04:00:10Z")
Heā€™s about 20 years older than Snape should be but Rickman is terrific. Iā€™m not a huge fangirl but I do enjoy [Snapecast](http://snapecast.com/), which veers between serious discussion, humor, and skits featuring one of the members who is also an actor and does an excellent Rickman. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/60 "2009-07-21T04:29:43Z")
I didnā€™t think Alan Rickman was hot until I saw the In Demand music video by Texas. Since then, yeah, he gets me wet. Especially as Snape. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574.md?page=4)