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?

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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. ;)

[red_squared]

*snogs you*

What would adult Snape call his mother?

The Fullblood Prince :D Failing that: The Pureblood Prince

[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.

[ook.livejournal.com]

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

[robriki.livejournal.com]

I am in Detroit on Tuesdays.

[summerborn.livejournal.com]

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

5) I agree with "mum" :)

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ 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.

[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."

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I'll cast another vote for 'Mother'.