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Bilingual poll: Colours | Какого цвета?
Another bilingual poll on the colours. Еще один двуязычный опрос по цветам. Из уважения к англоязычным гостям английские варианты идут первыми.


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Poll #1061645 Почему? | Why?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Why are his hair and eyes black? | Почему волосы и глаза Профессора черные

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Because it's cool | Потому что это круто
33 (28.0%)

Because he's a typical black-haired villain | Потому что он типичный злодей, а они обычно брюнеты
29 (24.6%)

Because he's Italian/Spanish/Transylvanian/Other (Specify) | Потому что он итальянец/испанец/трансильванец/иное (уточните)
18 (15.3%)

Because he's a typical Byronic hero | Потому что он типичный байронический герой со всеми вытекающими внешними характеристиками
35 (29.7%)

Because aquiline (hooked) nose goes with black hair and black eyes | Потому что если нос орлиный (крючком), человек просто не может быть блондином
32 (27.1%)

Because he's a Radcliffean hero, and Gothic-Radcliffean heroes aren't blond either | Потому что он радклиффианский герой (готический злодей), а они тоже обычно не блондины
25 (21.2%)

Because he reminds the author of her chronologically first (Portuguese) husband | Потому что он напоминает автору ее первого мужа-португальца
9 (7.6%)

Just because! | Потому что!
24 (20.3%)

I don't know | Не знаю
6 (5.1%)


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[info]sir_actor
2007-09-26 09:41 pm UTC (link)
He's of Spanish descent, I presume.

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[info]_bauta_
2007-09-26 09:46 pm UTC (link)
Methinks rather Italian.

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[info]mysduende
2007-09-26 10:19 pm UTC (link)
I see him as having romanian or maybe even french decent.

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[info]distan
2007-09-27 09:44 am UTC (link)
Spanish+Italian on his mother's side and transylvanian on his father's, yes

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[info]gmonkey42
2007-10-02 12:55 am UTC (link)
I second "Romanian." Not because I still like the vampire theory or anything...

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[info]phairest
2007-09-27 12:23 am UTC (link)
I'm going with 'typical black-haired villian' b/c right up till the end he was meant to appear evil, so to aid that illusion he was given every stereotypical manifestation possible; ugly, mean, and black on every possible surface.

But of course, that's not necessarily an exclusive answer, e.g he could be Romanian as well, at least I like to think so ;]

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[info]distan
2007-09-27 09:43 am UTC (link)
>>black on every possible surface

Bravo, M-J! :)

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[info]coconut_fruit
2007-09-27 01:12 am UTC (link)
I'm going with 'because it's cool'. Seriously, I don't think there's anything particularly meaningful or significant about Snape's hair and eye colour.

I think JK Rowling designed him to look as mysterious as possible. He's also supposed to appear imposing, threatening, and if you consider all his various physical attributes: sallow skin, hooked nose, fathomless black eyes, thin frame, black, greasy, shoulder-length hair... he sounds like a pretty imposing figure to me!

So I agree with [info]phairest: he was meant to appear 'evil'. As for his nationality: who knows? JK Rowling never went into detail about it, so that leaves it down to the reader to decide what they want to think. Thus, nothing regarding that is really a wrong theory. I'm not sure where the surnames 'Prince' and 'Snape' originate, either.

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[info]coconut_fruit
2007-09-27 01:24 am UTC (link)
Ok, did a bit of searching (just for fun), and here's what I found, courtesy of ancestry.com:

Snape
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places in England and southern Scotland, for example in North Yorkshire near Bedale, in the Lowlands near Biggar, and in Suffolk, so named with Old English snæp ‘area of boggy land’. In Sussex the dialect term snape is still used of boggy, uncultivable land.

Prince
1. English and French: nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (Latin princeps), presumably denoting someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.
2. Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Prinz or of a word meaning ‘prince’ in some other language.

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[info]injarra
2007-09-27 01:46 am UTC (link)
Можно предложить свой вариант?
Мне кажется, это связано с неодноплановостью героя: в его глазах не видно ничего - ни злости, ни доброты. Они как туннели. Без коннотации.
С одной стороны, есть стереотип, что готические брюнеты всегда злы и безжалостны, с другой - в первой же книге, несколькими страницами выше описания СС, расположен портрет Хагрида, у которого тоже черные, но - подчеркнуто - добрые глаза.
И судить мы можем только по поступкам (или по бесконечным рассуждениям главгероев, которым не стоит доверять).

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[info]hate_bat
2007-09-27 04:52 am UTC (link)
Не как туннели, а как темнота в них. И если они вдруг загорелись, то это - встречный.

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[info]distan
2007-09-27 09:42 am UTC (link)
Браво! :) Это так!

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[info]oblomskaya
2007-09-27 07:01 am UTC (link)
Hooked nose can go beautifully with blue eyes... *signs*

"Because he's Italian/Spanish/Transylvanian/Other (Specify)"

- because he's a Jew. (And metaphorically too.))

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[info]whatthefuckbenj
2007-09-29 08:05 pm UTC (link)
I go for gothic!Snape. I mean it fits with the dungeon, black clothes etc =)

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[info]distan
2007-09-30 08:35 am UTC (link)
Agreed! My idea is that he's from literature, not from life. Your icon is perfect!

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[info]whatthefuckbenj
2007-09-30 09:17 am UTC (link)
Thank you =)

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snape's hair
[info]saoirse_snape19
2007-10-01 09:05 pm UTC (link)
His hair and eyes are black because A) it looks sexy and b) he looks a lot like his mother, who was also pale, dark haired and dark eyed. Enough with the Spanish/italian theories!! He's white white!!

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[info]ermine_brigita
2007-10-22 12:01 pm UTC (link)
sure! Enough with Spain and Italy! Jewish theoty!!! Jewish roots as they are!!! Yes, he looks much like hgis mother and this very mother looks much like Rebekka from Ivanhoe! So we see quite jewish phenotype at the outcome: dark eyes and hair, hooked nose, bad temper and malicious sence of humour. Yeah, I forgot the talant at quite specific branch of science. Verdict: a Jew!

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whose to say?
[info]jjoho528
2007-10-01 11:04 pm UTC (link)
You know I'm not entirely convinced his eyes are black. Some people think my eyes are black, but in fact they're just a very, very dark blue. Perhaps upon first glance they appear black, but aren't us Snape fans supposed to look deeper than that?

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