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Published: 2011-12-16 23:05:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 2469; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 24
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Picture of Severus/Hermione, drawn as part of my 2011 SSHG Exchange giftfic for keladry_lupin: The Ethernet Chronicles. [link] Please do not use without Keladry's permission.Ink pens on bristol board.
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Don't know of I missed this at the Exchange, but how fabulous. Your detail is amazing!
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Well, it was part of a story, so easy to miss.
Thanks so much!
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They both look so happy, and I love all the books. Brilliant pic!
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Amazing! I love Hermione's hair, Severus sexy profile and the bookshelves. Me wants!
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Hee! Is it the bookshelves or Snape you want?
Thanks again.
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Mm... I wouldn't mind having both!
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Wow the details in the background are just amazing, well done! I also love details in the foreground like the sleeping cat (not Crookshanks?) and Snape's bare feet.
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Thank you. I went to town on this one. 
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Oh but I love the feet!
What story are you talking about?
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That's great!
The story is called 'The Ethernet Chronicles' and I wrote it for the 2011 round of the SSHG exchange. This drawing is one of the illustrations for that story.
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I love the book shelves, how Muggle and magic books are mixed. And Hermione's left foot. Apart from the fact that I like the whole thing.
Also: KITTEH!
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Happy foot! I wonder what she is dreaming about? 
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This picture is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. When it was up on the Exchange I just stared at it for far longer than is healthy, I’m sure. It’s so incredibly sensual, both the setting (the fire, the books, the plush chairs, the wine) and the pair (the bare feet, Hermione’s full hips, the curve of their eyebrows, their eyelashes, their CHEEKBONES, omg). A perfect picture of contented domesticality.
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Aww! Thank you for such effusive praise! ~blushes~ I'm glad you liked their bare feet, coz I'm dreadful at drawing hands and feet still. Hermione's hips: well, I rather wanted there to be a difference between his bony frame, which just digs into the cushion, and hers, which is lush. Cheekbones, LOL! I think I might have a weird fetish for cheekbones; I am so in love with Benedict Cumberbatch's.
Anyway, I am really chuffed that you liked this piece so much.
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Hee, I love cheekbones too! I've always imagined Severus to have really prominent cheekbones that stand out sharply on his face, which was why it was a bit of a disappointment when Alan Rickman...er, not so much. (But then Alan Rickman is so not my Snape anyway.)
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I agree. My Snape is all sharp angles: like his personality.
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Yeah, I remember reading the scene where Sirius was described as being quite a bit taller and going, “Wait, what?” I guess I was just taken in by his imposing presence, as I’m sure he calculates his movements to make him seem as tall and intimidating as possible, much as he must have worked to eliminate his Northern accent and cultivate the silky tones of his voice. But the only person it truly weirds me out to read in fics as being taller than Snape is Harry, since for some reason I’ve always imagined Harry to be a bit of a shorty, 5’9” or so, so reading a scene where Harry’s looking down at Snape or straight in his eyes just strikes me as wrong, wrong, wrong, lol. But a long, lean, angular Snape… Mmm, yes.
Yeah, AR/EW manips tend to squick me out, unless they’re altered in such a way where you can’t really tell it’s them (e.g. BulletTimeScully’s art). It doesn’t help that EW doesn’t look like Hermione to me either. (Maybe in the 1st movie, but I think the producers gave up trying to make her hair seem at all bushy by the 3rd. I suppose I should be grateful that at least they didn’t make it two-toned a la poor Narcissa Malfoy.) I completely agree about the lack of complexity in AR’s performances. Some of that was the fault of the movies themselves (apparently Severus calling Lily a Mudblood was just a tiny detail not even worth mentioning), but IMO AR didn’t just look too old for the role, he acted too old too, with none of the fire, vitality and life of a powerful wizard in his 30s. I watched HBP on TV a few weeks ago and had forgotten how much I had hated that movie; I think AR had essentially the same expression throughout the entire movie, including in the final confrontation with Harry, all cold exterior with none of the raging emotion underneath. But then I’m not in love with the HP movies in general, so I may be biased. (And yes, thank God for all the talented artists and authors out there to set things right!)
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Yes, Harry being taller than Snape is just plain wrong. Although 5'9 still appears tall to me as I am only 5'3! I agree that Snape calculates everything down to the last detail, including his looming over others. Must be a great lover. Sorry, sorry, one track mind...
I've just been looking at BulletTimeScully's art today, and you're right, it is good. EW is not my Hermione either, although she was in the first couple of movies. WTF were they thinking with Narcissa's hair? Trying to prove she was Bella's sister by dyeing her hair half-black? So lame!
Yes! AR totally lacks vitality and well... life, sometimes. I know Snape's Occlumency is sometimes described by JKR as him having dead eyes, but the adjectives she uses to describe him are so action-packed. He hisses, he spits, he rails, he sneers, he yells, he swoops, he looms, he threatens, he duels, he argues, he loves... I mean, this guy really FEELS things intensely! I remember Snapecast doing a review of the HBP movie and describing 'The Flight of the Prince' as 'The Leisurely Stroll of the Prince.' I laughed my arse off! Someone also mentioned that AR's cardboard cutout did a pretty good acting job.
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Heh, I'm 5'8" and I'm still getting over my short complex (both of my sisters and parents are taller than me). But yes, Severus can loom over me any day, preferably horizontally. *cough*
I’ve heard the theory that they were trying to expose all the Malfoys as bottle blonds or something (I think Lucius had roots showing by the end), which seems wrong on several levels. But then so much of the hair in the HP movies was wrong or just awful. (With regard to Bella…I remember seeing a comic that had her being the one to dye her hair since black was “so hardcore,” lol.)
“The Leisurely Stroll of the Prince” Bwah! 
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Or you could loom over him.
That makes no sense wrt the Malfoys. I sometimes think the movie guys didn't even bother reading the books! And I remember that comic: it was by Makani, who draws the most amazing Malfoy family stuff evah!
Oh, the wig of doom! They kept changing it to streamline him more as his belly expanded. Poor AR! I feel like I'm bashing him, but then again, he is noted for being really horrible to HP fans, so what the hell.
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I just looked through the book titles and find that I own at least twenty-one of them, and have read more. The Greeks and Romans helped run up the total.
And the science fiction. I once read a fanfic in which Snape explains to Hermione how he learned to fly: "I threw myself at the ground, and missed." I can see Snape doing that, but not Voldie.
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Well hello, fellow bibliophile!
Snape wanted to see if the ground would be friends with him.
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And it didn't. No one does. Sob!
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Yes, I see it now! It's tilted. When you look at it as an upright object it looks like a small pyramid.
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Yep, he's about to spill it, he's so relaxed. And no, that's not innuendo. Not at all.
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I just love the feet on each of them! Just relaxing in the warmth... lovely!
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Hee! Thanks. I was looking at this just before submitting the pic to dA and thinking, 'Geez, I really need to practice drawing feet.' I'm glad you liked them anyway.
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I entirely agree with you on Watson/Rickman. A woman of eighteen and a man in his late thirties was at one time considered a respectable, and even rational, pairing. He's in the prime of life and sufficiently well-established to support a family, and she's young enough to bear four or five healthy children with less risk than if she were closer to his age. But a woman in her early twenties and a man of sixty-five is creepy in any century.
At the very least the photo montage people could use photos of Emma Watson from the eighth film and Alan Rickman from the first.
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Yes, the twenty year age gap doesn't bother me, as long as they're both consenting adults. As you said, it made a lot of sense in bygone eras which had a partiarchical bias, and probably would in the more insular and traditional society that the WW is, especially if they all live for a lot longer than we do. The pair are mentally and intellectually compatible, their personalities complement one another, and as Shakespeare wrote, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.'
Watson/Rickman, however, is simply ick, ick, ick!
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Even though I usually do not like this pairing, this picture is so beautiful and it is an instant fave. It reminds me of a woodcut--your lines are fantastic! I love the hair and peaceful profiles on both of them! I also love the cat's pose--did you use a reference? The details are wonderful. Reading the book titles made me smile!
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Thank you very much! I know the Severus/Hermione 'ship isn't everyone's cup of tea, so I'm all the more pleased you liked this pic. I do always draw Hermione clearly as an adult, as it would be skeevy otherwise. And Emma Watson/Alan Rickman photomanips really creep me out!
As for the cat pose, yeah, a lot of my LJ friends have cats as pets and post pictures of them, so I tend to use those as references.
The books - well, I do love books - most of the non-magical titles come from my own bookshelves.
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Just love how relaxed they both look.
Fabulous picture.
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I think this pic makes more sense if one has read the story, right? Thanks again, my dear.
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So great to see new work from you! I'm looking forward to checking out their bookshelves
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Thank you! I've been a bit unwell recently, as well as working on this SSHG project. Never fear, I have lots of art planned and in the works for the coming year.
I think their bookshelves have a lot of stuff that's in my own.
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Hope you're 100% feeling better
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Thank you! I still have a bit of bronchitis, but am back to drawing, which feels good.
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