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You’ll never notice the colour of sin. Just as the storm clouds close in, it’s dark

I like to imagine that, on his first day as a new Professor, it was raining out

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Almost a herd: my collection of vintage deer is prancing along.

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some of you have never been bullied and it shows

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by Furdi De Rivera

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Mud salamander By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

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Nightmare Magazine, issue #14, Creepy Hemlock Press, November 2013. Edited by John Joseph Adams, cover art by Chris B. Murray.

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*moving expired potions from the shelf labeled Healing to the shelf labeled Poisons*

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“His Shadow”

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Cosmic eyeshadow

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Good ol’ Snap

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rock crystal reliquary stupa

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rise snucius nation

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Besties ~

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the thing that completely makes the 'the marauders/james and snape were both as bad as each other' argument completely false is the fact that... take a look at james in particular, born in a privileged position, loved by his parents, rich, pureblood. then take a look at snape, born in a poor family, has an abusive father and a neglectful mother, a halfblood. the other marauders, but especially sirius, completely complicit in bullying this kid just for existing. (because snape was not a death eater when he was in hogwarts nor was there any reason to believe he would be one from the very moment he arrived at hogwarts other than the marauders' prejudice towards slytherins.) this boy, was abused at home and bullied at school by these kids who just decided to make his life miserable just because they felt like it. growing up bullied and abused can make a person cold and mean. 'hurt people hurt people.' snape was not a bad person when he was a student at hogwarts, his bad decisions in life came after leaving hogwarts. and maybe it would help to consider the fact that his bad decisions come from the fact that his entire life he had been treated miserably by everyone around him, and he was abandoned by his best and only friend. lily was amused when he was being lifted up and had his genitals exposed in front of a crowd of students. lily married the man who made going to school a horrible experience for severus. none of the marauders (apart from perhaps lupin, but even that is debatable) ever showed any remorse for their actions, and if they did, none of them ever cared to apologize to snape for years of bullying and nearly getting him killed. james only has a 'redemption arc' in fanon. he is never actually shown to have matured. getting older and having a child is not maturing, even immature and irresponsible people can have children. (clearly, look at snape's father.) the only people who treated snape even remotely humanely were slytherins that would grow up to become death eaters. slytherins who were older than him too. and you don't think at all that that sounds awfully similar to being groomed into a cult? he switched sides and became a spy at great risk of his own life. he worked with dumbledore despite dumbledore never being shown to do anything to stop the bullying that happened to snape while he was in school. if snape remained loyal to voldemort, the wizarding world would have been screwed. he was mean, yes. bitter, yes. cold, yes. the man hasn't had a day of comfort in his life. from start to finish, he's been drenched in misery. that's bound to make someone feel and act miserably. but at the end of the day, he did what was right. meanwhile what did james do? bullied people and then died. what a hero, i guess?