Random Musings and a Fandom Question

[themostepotente]

Just because I feel like talking and think you all should listen :P

1.) Yay for TMP lurve at the lurve meme!

2.) Sectus ZOMG where are ju?

3.) I need to get shagged or snogged or summat. Taking volunteers.

4.) Campbell's chicken 'n stars soup roolz!

5.) This is for a fic, folks. What would adult Snape call his mother? Mum? Mam? Bitch? Mother sounds too informal and Malfoy-ish. Help?

--P

Comments

[geniusartist.livejournal.com]

Maybe Snape would call his mom "woman." Like: "Hey, woman, make me a cup of tea!" No? No, you're right, I'm not being helpful. ;)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Heh - I can't see Snapey disrespecting his mother like that. Now, Tobias. That's a different story.

[red_squared]

*snogs you*

What would adult Snape call his mother?

The Fullblood Prince :D Failing that: The Pureblood Prince

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

*snogs you back*

[topaz7.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine him saying "Mother". As in "Severus! Bring me my pince-nez". "Yes, mother." And doing a little bow afterwards.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

A little bow? LOL

Are you early or late for Christmas? *G*

[topaz7.livejournal.com]

har har! How about, bowing obsequiously to his mother.

I think Malfoy should call his mother "maman".

[ook.livejournal.com]

Mum or mam. Young Snape would have a poor person's dialect.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I agree on both. Mum for adult Snape and mam for teenage Snape. Mam's very regional. He might have outgrown that as an adult.

[robriki.livejournal.com]

I am in Detroit on Tuesdays.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

We need to have a Detroit HP orgy, man.

[summerborn.livejournal.com]

2) Wait, what? Sectus hmmm? *looks around*

5) I agree with "mum" :)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Just that I'm really looking forward to Sectus, and I wish it would get here quicker.

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

I know just the perfect word, something between mother and mum, which Snape would totally use, but I'm afraid it's Greek. ;-) Why doesn't the English language has this word, dammit? So I vote for mother. I can't see Snape saying mum. Not an adult Snape anyway. Perhaps a young Snape would.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You know what's amusing to me? Before we knew jack shit about either of Snape's 'rents, I wrote a story where Eileen had Greek or Spanish blood in her.

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

Heh! Which story is that?

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

It was Filligree and Shadow before erastes got hold of it :P

[letmypidgeonsgo.livejournal.com]

hmm, i see your point about malfoy-ish, but 'mother' still sounds most right to me...not in a frigid way so much as an anthony-perkins-in-psycho way...

dammit, now i want chicken & stars!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Ha ha - let's hope Snape doesn't keep his dead mother about :P

Would he be Master Bates? *G*

[soawen.livejournal.com]

I think Snape is very careful about speaking in Malfoy - more so when he was a teen - to distance himself from his father and Muggle life, so there 'Mother' would fit him fine.

However, we have also seen how his polished language slip when he is angry, so 'mum' would do too depending on the situation.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I think 'mum' and 'mother' both fit depending on the nature of their relationship.

[prurient-badger.livejournal.com]

Sectus? *makes inquiring noise* *possibly sounds like a chicken*

Mum works for Snape, I think, although I can see him calling her Mother as well, depending on how incredibly pissy he happened to be that particular day.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Are you going to Sectus?

I agree on all points!

[prurient-badger.livejournal.com]

I am! You too?!

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Along with most everyone I'd vote for Mother as an adult and probably Mam (or however you'd write the droll British accent) as a kid. It doesn't seem to fit my picture of him to call his mother any kind of derogative term ... he is too controlled, composed and disciplined for that, and really, also too respectful, I'd say.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I agree. I think Eileen's the only one he's ever felt any love for, barring JK doesn't gag us with Snape/Lily :P

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Definitely, I'd say that he loved her .. or still does love her ... and Snape/Lily ... the sad thing is, I can see JK write something like that, and I won't be surprised if I read it in DH. It is so wrong ... but aaaah well ... the power of LOVE ... and all.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

It's not so much wrong as it is boringly predictable.

[ ...and also, redheads ]

[http://users.livejournal.com/supes_/]

*butting in most rudely*


actually, i agree with cruentum. i'm attempting not to speculate too much, because i want to avoid any and all possible spoilers... but i'd say snape crushing on lily seems quite likely, given everything (both in the books and what jo has said in the past). i've actually been trying to steel myself for it...

honestly, though, i don't think i'd hate it that much. it doesn't seem entirely out of character, and if nothing else, would add a nice layer of angst to his younger self. mostly, i think it's that i'm not sure i want solid canon evidence that snape is straight. i much prefer having that open-ended.

. . .

although, now that i think of it... i guess the real question is, were his potential feelings for lily a large contributing factor in his joining the death eaters, and did he intentionally try to get the potters killed out of jealousy/revenge. because that is also something jo could seriously do, and that would be totally lame and out of character (out of the character most of us would like snape to have, anyway >_>).


...er, sorry. i'm rambling, as per usual. and this isn't even my conversation. oops?

[ snape and his mom ]

[http://users.livejournal.com/supes_/]

you know, i see what you mean about it sounding malfoyish, but i still agree with those who said that "mother" seems likely... at least, as a teen i can definitely see him using it, especially when not in a pleasant mood.

and "mum" as a kid... but somehow neither sounds quite right to me for adult snape. especially not "mum" -- that's way too informal for someone like him, however close he may've been with her.

i think perhaps as an adult snape might call her "eileen." in the right tone, that doesn't have to be rude... in fact, i think it could actually speak to a sort of respect on his part, and an attempt to see her more as a person rather than just a maternal figure. that sounds like the sort of thing i could see in snape.

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[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I definitely can't see Snape calling his mother by her first name. That's way too disrespectful. Perhaps, if she'd been his step mother? But not by blood.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/supes_/]

i guess that's where we disagree: i concede that typically it's a sign of disrespect (or at least a more informal attitude than is proper toward one's parents), but i still think in the right context, used by the right person, it can be quite the opposite. plus, i kinda like the point Jedi made about differentiating between her and tobias.

on the other hand, of course, you have to write what you feel [within reason]. so if it's not natural in your mind -- whether or not it's realistic objectively -- you shouldn't write it that way.

so... yeah. "mother" would be my second choice, i guess. which seems to be pretty much what everyone else said.

[jedipirate.livejournal.com]

That is a very good question. I hadn't really thought much about it, but I think I largely agree with supes_

As a boy, I could definitely see him saying "mum," because I doubt he was always so stiff and uptight. And as a teenager, I can see him calling her "mother."

But as an adult, I can fully see him calling his mother "Eileen." For one thing, I think that Snape tends to call people he has a great deal of respect for by their given names.

Also, though, I have the feeling that if his father was as abusive to him as he apparently was to Eileen, it could be very likely that he'd have demanded respect from Snape and actually made him address him as "father." If that were the case, calling his mother by her given name could be a way of saying, "I hate him, but I love you, and I will not call you by anything that would insinuate you being on the same level as him."

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Have to disagree with you there. Calling a parent by their first name's very disrespectful. And Eileen's probably on that very short list of people Snape respects.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I'll cast another vote for 'Mother'.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

So noted!