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⌈ Secret Post #817 ⌋

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There is a glaring flaw in your argument, OP. Snape might find himself physically attracted to a girl he's known since she was a flat-chested, hairless, curveless, and HOPEFULLY squicky-to-think-about-like-that 11/12-year-old and he was on the brink of his midlife crisis. But the fact that Snape is ugly as hell and never washes his hair is a lot harder to ignore when you're face to face with him than when you're phantasizing about him on the internet. This makes it much more likely that, rather than being physically attracted to him, Hermione would have to overcome a certain level of revulsion, (both subconsciously, because society imprints Do Not Want onto unattractive and unhealthy features like his, and consciously, because of his lack of hygiene) should she find herself emotionally/intellectually attracted to Snape.

I'm sure others will tell you extensively about the age-difference, student-teacher problematics, conflicting personalities, and so on and so forth, so I won't bother with that.

I'm not the OP, but wow...you obviously don't read SS/HG fiction do you??? Because most of the one's I've read, and I'm sure the OP has read if he/she is into the fandom at all, they don't have Snape being this OMG SEXY HERO! or anything, they do make him repulsive and they do address everything you said they would need to overcome. Also, Hermione was attracted to Viktor Krum, and if you read about his physical attributes, he's not that different from Snape, so I wouldn't see a problem with that...

I'm not the OP, but wow...you obviously don't read SS/HG fiction do you???

No. If what you say is true, then I sure hope for the OP that the secret wasn't addressed to people who do!

I'm an avid SS/HG shipper and I don't see anything wrong with what the OP said in their secret...

I never said there was anything wrong with what's in the secret. I said I'd pity the OP if even the people who DO ship SSHG think it's sick and twisted because of reasons I listed above, which are the reasons a non-fan like me finds it an unpalatable ship. I would also pity all those shippers who despise what they ship. :|

[[Also, Hermione was attracted to Viktor Krum, and if you read about his physical attributes, he's not that different from Snape, so I wouldn't see a problem with that...]]

Krum showers regularly though. Comparing his physical attributes to Snape's is kind of an insult. :P

Ah. So I totally forgot what day today is. And I didn't even notice they were ALL "I ship it" and "I'd hit it" until I read the other comments. So you probably won't get lectured very much after all. Sorry OP, still not bothering.

There is also the thoughts Hermione would have (in some of them) that he could be working for Voldy. Which would deter from the 'SNAPE IZ TEH HOTTEST ONE111!!!' factor of the fics. LOL

1.) Despite the movie castings, Snape, Remus, Sirius, and everybody from the Marauders era is actually was actually in their early- to mid-thirties during the course of the series. That is not 'mid-life', especially, it would seem, for wizards.

2.) There was a whole lot more I was going to say to your comment, but as I began typing, I wondered why the fuck I was defending Hermione/Snape.

Here's what it is, though. I thought your comment was unnecessarily agressive and self-righteous, which pissed me off. Secondly, I have a hard time with close-minded HP shippers, because I... am very much not one. Except for like two or three pairings in HP that mean anything to me, I'm willing to ship, like, everything in that canon. You write it well, I WILL READ IT.

So I don't get people who go "omg ew" to any HP pairing at all. :P

Agressive and self-righteous... wait, what? The OP asked why people think this pairing is sick/wrong/squicky/whatever. I told them. Starting by pointing out that that part where they implied that Snape is physically attractive does not hold water with anyone who doesn't fangirl him.

I'm sorry, but I just can't help but laugh at your comment. I love the books but I'm not in the HP fandom at all, let alone as a shipper. If saying it the way it is - in this case, that they're shipping a schoolgirl with a thoroughly unpleasant man old enough to be her father - rather than sugarcoating the facts makes me "close-minded" about shipping... really, what? I know that shipping tends to make people forget/stop worrying about their IRL moral issues and squicks, but how does it make me close-minded if I remind them that those concerns they have cast off for the sake of shipping are why many people don't ship it? I'm especially baffled because the first person to comment informed me that there are apparently plenty of SSHG shippers who don't shy away from tackling all the obstacles and flaws of this crack pairing.

*same anon*

Hell, I even limited myself to the one thing directly related to what they said in the secret (the faulty assumption of Snape's physical attractiveness). I didn't bother going into detail about all the other things that might squick people about SSHG - some of which apply to myself. You know why? Because I do not care what they ship. They asked and I gave them as much of an answer as I could be bothered giving.

I suggest you don't accuse people of being butthurt so easily. It makes them disinclined to have civil conversation with you. Good-bye.

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