featherxquill

Actually, that was one of the first things that came to my mind when I first played with the idea of doing a romance fic about him (which I havnt yet) - I can imagine him as being absoloutly the stalkerish "you-are-mine-and-no-one-else-will-have-you" type. Thinking up a realistic SS/oFC romace scenario - if he ever did fall in love, I can only envisage him having anything resembling a "good" relationship with someone who (a) is very powerful - in witch/wizarding terms I'm talking about almost a female Dumbledore here (assuming the OC pairing is het), someone who absolutely does not have to take any guff from him. (b) has a number of shared interests, traits & qualities that he would both find attractive & would command his respect. There is a lot of evidence that he respects & looks up to DD so he could be made to do the same for a suitable female character - though he'd find such a person very threatening at first. & finally, (c) - she would have to have ennough reason herself to want to persevere with someone like him. She'd also have to know when to give him a longer tether & when to put her foot down - and be prepared to do that all the time. Real taming of the shrew material ...