A Brit a Day [#.......Sorry, I've gotten way behind...]

It's a bad sign that I have forgotten to post on my beloved blog for 2 days is a row.  I'm going to take a little break to figure out what A Brit a Day should do next--and I mean a tiny little break, because I'm sure I'll be posting something James May-ish on Monday. Just try and stop me!

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Just because I can, I'm recapping a baker's dozen of my favorite posts today.  I do love these boys.

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Classic Moments with Severus Snape:  It's all about talking to the kids.

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Maybe he's not the next Doctor....but he'll always be our Professor.

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I found this picture on We Heart It.  It blows me away.

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Classic Severus Snape for your Sunday viewing from 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2'. Mmmmm.

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In order to make sure that attributions and credit go to all the right people, I'm going to link you to a post on my Tumblr page here instead of trying to re-create it on this blog.  And happy Mother's Day!

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Straight to the point.  He was perfect.

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I have a photo file on my desktop called 'Make It Go Away' and these two were in it.

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Rickman & Snape  for your Sunday viewing pleasure.

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 Above is a brilliant bit of photo editing, as is this below--

All credit to the artists.  Not me.

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Here is a print that I bought from artist Elizabeth Wu at Comic Con 2012, "Severus and Lily."

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Tell the truth:  did you ever go see a Harry Potter movie a second/third/fourth time just for the scenes with Professor Snape?

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OK, hang on for dear life because this is a long and speedy train of thought here:  Friday night I saw 'The Loneliest Planet,' probably the angstiest film of the year.  The entire cast [basically an ensemble of three actors] was amazing, but Gael Garcia Bernal, with maybe a dozen words of dialogue in the whole movie, manages to bear the weight of the entire world with his movements, posture, and face.

It blew me away.  It reminded me of how much I need to see 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' the film in which Alfonso Cuaron directed Bernal to much acclaim.  And then I started thinking about how much I like Alfonso Cuaron--he directed an episode of the obscure 'Fallen Angels' with Alan Rickman and Laura Dern in a classic noir story, "Murder Obliquely." [Look straight down now for Rickman in jammies, and don't forget to hold onto something as you do--]

Oh, and of course he directed HP3.  And Prisoner of Azkaban is, visually and narratively, my favorite HP movie.  You've got the classic lecture in which Snape instructs the class to 'turn to page 394.'

You have ominous meetings of all kinds--

And you have Snape showing us how a real man takes care of the kids--and if you should happen to see 'The Loneliest Planet,' you will understand how this screen cap brings us full circle, but I better shut up because it would be too easy to get real spoilery here about all that.

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It's so funny how no one has to tell you who this is--even out of context, I would know an articulated Severus Snape paper child anywhere.

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This beautifully edited screen cap evokes a chill in the night air that prevents you from getting out of bed unless you really, really have to. [credit to the artist, not me]

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My favorite Harry Potter movie posters were always the ones that featured Severus Snape.

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Here's a link to an article that will make you love Alan Rickman even more than you already do...yes, it is possible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2005/07/14/potter_hotel_feature.shtml


"But on the last night Richard Harris, Kenneth Branagh and Alan Rickman did have a bit of a session. I think Rickman and Branagh regarded it as sitting beneath the feet of a master. He [Richard Harris] was very much into story telling and they were soaking up every bit of information."

Darryl was fascinated with the relationship between Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman and veteran screen legend Richard Harris, adding:

"That was interesting because they were almost in awe of him. He was obviously a great, great star and that was fascinating to see that they were like little boys [in his presence]."

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Here is amazing Harry Potter art from Elizabeth Wu whom I met at Anime Expo this year.  I bought a print of young Lily and Severus to hang in my office.

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Breathtaking man, breathtaking bookcase.  I could live here....with him....oh yes I could.  Presumably some of those books are in languages I do not speak, therefore Severus would have to read them to me.