I can imagine it very well because I saw it in the Buffy fandom and it was NOT a thing of beauty. Snape making Love Potions for Lily would end in the following wank:
a) "OMG EW. I hate Snape now. How a hated loner of a teenaged boy could EVER do such a disgusting thing is beyond me. (I was never a teen, btw. I was born middle-aged with a moral compass to guide me right.) This was not the Romantic Hero I was expecting. Go um... Harry!"
b) "Hahahahaha! I told you Snape was evil! James was clearly a Hero at a very young age, bullying a future rapist and murderer. It was JUSTICE I tell ya! JUSTICE!"
c) "It's clearly anti-feminist to still be a Snape-fan after we learned that he made a Rape Potion to rape and abuse Lily. Only idiots, self-hating women and Nazis could like someone like that."
d) "Um, isn't Snape's character all about making bad mistakes and then trying to undo them? If James and Sirius and Remus could be complete assholes as teens, can't Snape have been one too? What? No, don't hit me! *ducks and runs*"
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*stares into the future in her orb*
Date: 2005-12-17 02:39 pm (UTC)a) "OMG EW. I hate Snape now. How a hated loner of a teenaged boy could EVER do such a disgusting thing is beyond me. (I was never a teen, btw. I was born middle-aged with a moral compass to guide me right.) This was not the Romantic Hero I was expecting. Go um... Harry!"
b) "Hahahahaha! I told you Snape was evil! James was clearly a Hero at a very young age, bullying a future rapist and murderer. It was JUSTICE I tell ya! JUSTICE!"
c) "It's clearly anti-feminist to still be a Snape-fan after we learned that he made a Rape Potion to rape and abuse Lily. Only idiots, self-hating women and Nazis could like someone like that."
d) "Um, isn't Snape's character all about making bad mistakes and then trying to undo them? If James and Sirius and Remus could be complete assholes as teens, can't Snape have been one too? What? No, don't hit me! *ducks and runs*"