Snape is grumpy because the house elves insist on serving wholemeal toast -- IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
I hate the vampire theory, and if we find out he really is 1/8th vampire or something else stupid (which would qualify him for citizenship in the Vampire Nation) in the last book, I am going to formally revolt. It's just too lame. We already have a werewolf, and an undead. We don't need more classical horror. Of course, maybe he's really Imhotep and the layers are really his ceremonial woowoo wrappings.
The stereotype of the filthy genius is, sadly, not undeserved, often, which is something that other people don't tend to understand. People who are driven by intellectual pursuits tend to neglect the body. I can't even think of many geniuses that were clean all the time, had tidy hair, and dressed like normal people.
I do wish I had read less fics that had a Major Revelation at some point on Harry's end that Snape's hair was Not Greasy But Actually Just Very Soft. Or fics with the grand transformational Harry Buys Snape Scented Shampoo scene. Christ. Some people, who really do bathe every single day without fail, have overactive sebaceous glands. I'm pretty sure he has yellow teeth because he drinks English tea, and probably not with milk, and yellow fingernails because he sticks his hands in things that stain every single day of his life. Decoctions of plants, for example, are tremendously staining -- what do people think dyes were made of originally, anyway?
My body temperature for most of my life has been two degrees below normal and I have atrocious circulation. No one seems to know why. When I was younger, my BP wouldn't register on the machines in the drug stores or the home ones and it used to give an error, so I used to tell people I was dead and that was why my fingernails were blue, too.
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Date: 2006-08-07 06:36 am (UTC)I hate the vampire theory, and if we find out he really is 1/8th vampire or something else stupid (which would qualify him for citizenship in the Vampire Nation) in the last book, I am going to formally revolt. It's just too lame. We already have a werewolf, and an undead. We don't need more classical horror. Of course, maybe he's really Imhotep and the layers are really his ceremonial woowoo wrappings.
The stereotype of the filthy genius is, sadly, not undeserved, often, which is something that other people don't tend to understand. People who are driven by intellectual pursuits tend to neglect the body. I can't even think of many geniuses that were clean all the time, had tidy hair, and dressed like normal people.
I do wish I had read less fics that had a Major Revelation at some point on Harry's end that Snape's hair was Not Greasy But Actually Just Very Soft. Or fics with the grand transformational Harry Buys Snape Scented Shampoo scene. Christ. Some people, who really do bathe every single day without fail, have overactive sebaceous glands. I'm pretty sure he has yellow teeth because he drinks English tea, and probably not with milk, and yellow fingernails because he sticks his hands in things that stain every single day of his life. Decoctions of plants, for example, are tremendously staining -- what do people think dyes were made of originally, anyway?
My body temperature for most of my life has been two degrees below normal and I have atrocious circulation. No one seems to know why. When I was younger, my BP wouldn't register on the machines in the drug stores or the home ones and it used to give an error, so I used to tell people I was dead and that was why my fingernails were blue, too.