I hear you, I do. I know that's why I hated the Snape/Lupin fanfics especially by the BNFs, because they erased Snape's asshlery so much, he wasn't even the same person. I do know before HBP came out, people wrote Snape as some sort of discredited noble, or that he was in truth, really handsome, and his ugliness was a reverse glamour.

*head tilt *

uh... yeah. LOL, oh HP fandom, shine on, you crazy diamonds.