# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/101 "2009-08-03T04:13:30Z")
Snape as Snape isn’t “hot,” really, to me; he’s incredibly intriguing and captivating, at least before he becomes a bit of a woobie in the last novel. I really wish JKR hadn’t made him all about the Lily wuv. Spare me. Rickman as Snape? Hella hot. He does sooo much with a withering glance and the sonorous intonation of acidic insults. But then again, Rickman as pretty much _anyone_ is hella hot. He made me root and lust for _Judge freakin’ Turpin_. But I don’t see him as Sirius at _all_. Sirius (post-Azkaban imprisonment) is hyperactive, immature, and overemotional. I can’t picture Rickman in such a role. He could probably play it, because he’s a very good actor, but the role doesn’t suit his forte, which is playing intellectual, collected, [del]smouldering cauldrons of lust[/del], repressed, and witty (or acidic, depending on the character’s temperament). It’s funny someone mentioned Malkovich, because I love them both in the same role – Valmont, in _Les Liaisons Dangereuses_. The first time I “discovered” Rickman’s awesomeness was during a broadcast of the Tony Awards in the '80s, when _Liaisons_ was nominated and Rickman performed a scene as Valmont opposite Lindsay Duncan’s Marteuil. (Ah! [God bless Youtube. Fast foward a bit to get to the good stuff.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkTue5N9WE)). He spoke two words that forever won me over: “Take. Care.” Oh my God, what that man can do with his voice! And Colonel Brandon… “Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.” “The air is full of _spices_.” “For there is nothing lost, that may be found … if sought…” MERCY! PS and by the way, the answer to “who has the best voice?” is Rickman and one Patrick Stewart. Come _on_. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/102 "2009-08-03T06:57:54Z")
> [@choie](#): > > He made me root and lust for _Judge freakin’ Turpin_. Why? [This, maybe.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJLmYPgUhk&feature=related) Gets me…excited…for all the wrong reasons. Why, yes, that duet might be pandering to morbid fangirls, just a bit. But I defy anyone to find a sexier shave in Western film. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/103 "2009-08-03T16:39:45Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > Why? [This, maybe.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJLmYPgUhk&feature=related) Gets me…excited…for all the wrong reasons. > Why, yes, that duet might be pandering to morbid fangirls, just a bit. But I defy anyone to find a sexier shave in Western film. Oh yes. Yes. Now if we could just remove that wimpy black-haired guy from the scene, it’d be perfect! But actually I was thinking of the “[You gandered at my ward](http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=11456)” scene. Especially the “I think _not_.” And his hands roaming the leather books. (Extra porny for book-lovers!) ---
**Author:** ![Severiane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@Severiane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severiane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/104 "2009-08-04T06:37:22Z")
Count me in. I’m another true lover of Alan Rickman as Severus Snape. But I didn’t know there were so many of us ! I wonder if I’m not going to see the movies only for HIM… ---
**Author:** ![curlygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@curlygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlygirl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574/105 "2009-08-12T18:58:20Z")
I’m sorry Ms. Woodhouse but you must be a bit of a prude. Who doesn’t at least secretly want the bad boy? I wouldn’t want to run my hands through his greasy hair or anything but I wouldn’t mind if he roughed me up a bit, if you know what I mean. He is fairly sexy in Die Hard and absolutely sexy in Sense and Sensibility… drool… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-my-wife-thinks-severus-snape-is-hot/503574.md?page=5)