It's funny -- Harry/Snape creeped me out wildly when I first started reading HP, but over time, familiarity has taken the ick out of it, for me.
I'm fine with them as adults - I wouldn't write it, but I wouldn't mind. And even 15-year-old Harry wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the teacher thing.
See, I've had a teacher who started dating a student (dumped his wife for her and everything). And that's uncomfortable for the entire class, because there are certain roles you're supposed to take as student and teacher and suddenly the teacher doesn't respect that. Everyone else might be "safe", but it doesn't feel that way.
A teacher responding to a student's advances is behaving rather unprofessionally, but a teacher who'd be the first to make advances is much, much worse.
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I'm fine with them as adults - I wouldn't write it, but I wouldn't mind. And even 15-year-old Harry wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the teacher thing.
See, I've had a teacher who started dating a student (dumped his wife for her and everything). And that's uncomfortable for the entire class, because there are certain roles you're supposed to take as student and teacher and suddenly the teacher doesn't respect that. Everyone else might be "safe", but it doesn't feel that way.
A teacher responding to a student's advances is behaving rather unprofessionally, but a teacher who'd be the first to make advances is much, much worse.