What's with the facial hair?

[emmagrant01]

I'm sure someone has posted about this already, and I just missed it.

When I was in a Borders store recently I saw the big HP&DH posters there, with the whole is-Snape-good-or-evil thing going on. Great and all, but... did I miss something? Why does Snape have facial hair?



And here's a close-up:



I haven't read the books for a while (and am too lazy to go upstairs and get them to see), but it could very well be that this is the way he was drawn in the books. It's just so far from both the fanon and film depictions of him that it's a bit shocking. I can't help but look at that and think, "That's not Snape." Not my Snape, anyway. :-P

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Comments

[carvedwood.livejournal.com]

I like them, too. In fact, that's where I got my own mental images of Snape, Remus, Sirius, Mad-Eye, Tonks, and Kingsley from. (But I don't like her image of Harry.) In my mind's eye, Snape's always had a beard, and Remus has longish hair.
Emma, Mugglenet has scans of the chapter illustrations, if you want to flip through them. It's under Books > Image Media > Chapter Pics, and Snape is shown in PoA, ch 14, and HBP, ch 28.

[carvedwood.livejournal.com]

Oh, and OotP, ch 24, where he's arguing with Sirius.