It is predictable but still pretty ironic the the weirdos who have some kind of pathological attachment to a fictional character and give the character this godlike importance in their lives always end up completely ignoring what the character is actually like
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Like I do not think JKR is a great and subtle writer but the reason people liked Snape is that of all the major adult characters he's the most complex, he's the closest to being actually 3D His whole thing is failure, self-loathing, contradictory impulses, internal division
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The "Snapewives" thing ignores ALL OF THAT They had this free-floating image of "dark, capricious, dangerous masculinity" in their head and they just projected this character from a popular book onto him even though it sounds NOTHING LIKE HIM
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The Snape fanclub didn't really get going until Rickman and the movies. Us cis straight women loving Rickman aside, Snape in the movies is NOTHING like Snape in the books. Rickman's Snape is decades older, not ugly, and not much of a bully. Rickman even made him funny
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Yeah I'm willing to give most of the credit here to the movies, and I guess to the power of visual media in general (you see characters become memes online from stuff like a single leaked piece of concept art or actor portrait)
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