Severus Thoughts

Severus Snape.

Yep.

Severus Snape.

He is the Hogwarts schoolmaster whom everybody sort of hated for awhile because he was quite cruel and unkind to Harry.

Well, unkind is an understatement, I know.

Everybody used to scream, I love Harry. I love Daniel. I like Draco… blah, blah, blah.

But, I have fancied Severus Snape early on. When I first watched the movie when I was in fourth year, I sort of like the dirty-looking potions master.

When I read the book which a classmate and friend kindly lent me, I loved the character. Ask Adel. Dib ala Del, I did say that I liked Snape?

Why?

ü He was a sad man and I am fascinated by unhappy people. I don’t know. I guess, it just seems melancholic. A little gothic, yes, but definitely appealing.

ü Snape was very controlled and quite icy. I adore men who can control their emotions and act quite indifferently.

ü He also does not feel as if he had to explain himself to anybody. No, Severus does not see himself as accountable to anyone. He moves and acts and does not care what anyone else thought about him and what he was doing.

ü He is not vain, physically speaking. He does not feel compelled to look handsome and appear cool or whatever to everybody.

ü He was totally himself in his dealings. He was a cool, albeit irritating teacher and if I were his student, I just might fall all over him.

ü Nobody liked him. Every Harry Potter fan has picked the most handsome, cool and powerful people in the series. My friends expressed fascination and adoration on Harry, Ron, the Weasely twins, Draco, the guy who became the Twilight hero, even Voldemort’s Tom Riddle character. But, I always had a special place for Snape in my heart. He shares it with Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger.

ü Basta, I like Snape. A lot.

Aside from Snape, I also have a fascination for Luna Lovegood. I was actually hoping and wishing and praying that J.K. will make Luna Lovegood Harry’s partner.

Luna was a fascinating eccentric creature and I absolutely adored her. Again, for the same reasons as I liked Snape. Nobody liked Luna and Luna was not a cool character.

But, I still liked her.

I guess I am sucker for people who stood out like a sore thumb in a roomful of really beautiful people.

Hehe. I am a sucker for the underdog, for the weakling, for the alienated piece of humanity who never quite fitted in.

Being different is quite difficult. But Snape and Luna both proved that we, strangers and oddities that we all are, can actually cope, and cope well.

Yes. We all feel strange to everybody. I am sure that we all feel a sort of alienation from time to time.

That is normal. Trying to fit into to the normal concept is a cliché. An overdone concept. Not really required for a person to be happy.