On Snape -- On Quidditch -- On Flying and Brooms

[themostepotente]

Yes, yes I know -- Snape refereed the Quidditch match in book one.

Should I be convinced on this alone that he knows how to fly a broom? Um, no.

I can just see his pale, skinny arse clinging to his broom for dear life while Harry zooms past to make a grab for the snitch.

He probably vehemently protested when Madam Hooch asked that he take her place. Of course, you know, Dumbly stepped in and twinkled at him. How could he say no? Easy -- with Albus, there is no saying no.

Snape just strikes me as very clumsy on a broom. Not the picture of grace, if you know what I mean. Dare I say, I can see him being a bit of an acrophobiac. In the air, Snape is completely out of his element.

That said...

I can't see him being much of a Quidditch player. I can see him in the stands reading a text, now and again looking up to wave a Slytherin banner. Oh yes, go Slytherin. So unenthusiastic. Like whoopdeefuckingdo! The pervy Snape/Lucius slasher in me would like to believe he's drooling over Lucius, but eh, I can't see Lucius playing Quidditch either. The wind would muss his hair.

So what's your take on Snape and flying a broom? And by fly, I mean well enough. Clinging like house ivy doesn't count.

Can he or can't he?

If so -- what's your take on Snape and Quidditch? Might he have played?

Let's hear what you have to say!

--P

Comments

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that Snape wasn't a Quidditch player, and OotP kind of clinched it for me. In the pensieve is a memory of a girl laughing as he tries to mount a bucking broomstick, and when Remus is trying to explain to Harry that Severus was jealous of James, he cites that James was good at Quidditch. It's nothing concrete, but the image we get of him as a boy seems to be rather more academic than athletic.

(Just my two cents.)

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

Which is one reason I like him so much. I was always the slowest member of the softball team, no matter how well I wanted to play, and was more at home with a book or a chemistry set than on a diamond. Didn't make me any less jealous of the athletic types who got all the attention and were told how bright their futures were while I kept to my corner of the library.

Then, in high school, I ran into those athletic types again and couldn't believe how boring and straight-laced they were. *eg* Poor Severus. He really needed a few years away from the Marauders to see how much more interesting he really was.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Same here - the only team I ever made was the chess team. And as interesting as Quidditch looks in the movies, if I were a Hogwarts student not only would I not play - I'd probably be skipping the matches to sneak a little herbal refreshment behind the greenhouses. My friends from school were definitely more of the Snapish variety. We loathed the Potters of the world :-P

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

Herbal refreshment

Just for that, you get a drabble based on that!

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I played Varsity soccer in high school, but I was the furthest thing from a jock.

I think Snape just hated school. And if you hate just having to be there, it's not like you're going to be volunteering to be there after school for practice.

Personally -- nerdly types are sexy :-)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I would agree, Delphi. Was it his bookish nature that attracted ol' Argus?

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*grin* Well, in Filch's mind it doesn't matter if a boy comes to school knowing more hexes than a seventh year. It's those young hooligans who come swaggering in after Quidditch matches, tracking mud in on the floor and sneaking around at all hours of the night celebrating with contraband liquor, that are the real villains.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

It's the cut of his trousers, isn't it? *grins*

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*snigger* When it comes to young Snape, it's more that I can see him giving it up for anyone who's duly impressed by him.