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Pokemon evolution or just having enough money to buy your own closet.

From Little Sevy to greasy teen snivellus to equally greasy but less akward Snape.

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The Reasons Why Severus Snape is Secretly a Cat, Actually.

I'm saying he's a neglected and abused stray little black cat and here is why

He's very meow meow. VERY kitten.

Black cats are vilified and assumed by some to be evil. Coincidentally, both of these things happen to Snape as well.

Difficult to befriend. Cats are already picky about who they like, and Cats who have had it rough are even more difficult. One cannot just waltz up to a cat like that expect friendliness, or even indifference for that matter.

Extremely bad, no good, very bad luck with dogs. Seriously, the man MUST have dog trauma by now. Werewolves? Sirius, one of his biggest haters and tormentors, a dog animagus? even Fluffy mauling his leg?? The first two were marauders, yes, but that's not a good thing when it comes to Snape. (not all dogs and cats dont get along, but its certainly interesting. Personally, I headcanon him as a definite cat person who has a bad associations with dogs but thats a whole other post.)

Very hissy and snarly and unpleasant when threatened - and sometimes, even when YOU think there's no apparent threat! This is premium Gato™ Behavior. An abused little shelter cat, horribly unsocialized, becoming hyper defensive anytime anything happens to him, even if the thing that is happening is kind.

it fits with the idea that hes "mean for no reason" because there IS a reason - cats are complicated little guys! Where you see a nonissue, He might see a threat. Where you see kindness, he might see mockery. Where you see playfulness he might see cruelty, and so on. After all, he's been on the receiving end of it all too often.

Cats like this usually end up stuck in shelters - not a home - because no one will take them. They're too offputting, they're too mean, they're too much trouble. One could argue that Hogwarts itself IS that shelter in this scenario; a place to be, but not a home. Not really.

Worth noting: maybe to Harry, Hogwarts can be considered a sort-of Home, but he actually found kindness and friends there. Severus lost his only friend and was tormented there. Better than his incredibly shitty situation with his family? Certainly! but Shelters often are.

SWM fits as well; A moment of extreme distress from being humiliated, afraid, and overwhelmed? all those jeering laughing faces while he is vulnerable and unsafe, defenseless at the hands of people who have continuously hurt him for years?? and to see and know that his friend - his BEST friend - the only friend; the only PERSON, he has, is there holding back a smile as it is happening too? Have you ever met a cat in distress? of course he lashed out. It's honestly astounding that he didnt lash out MORE.

and while on the subject of SWM, him lashing out at Lily applies here too. A cornered, distressed cat (especially one with a history of abuse) sees everything as a threat , even people it is normally friendly to, if it's distressed enough. Have you tried to bathe a cat? or maybe tried to coax one to get into a cat carrier for the vet? these things are very difficult but manageable at the best of times but "vulnerable, afraid, humiliated, and threatened" are NOT the best of times, I fear.

it even works with his occlumency and the way he deals with vulnerability as well. Cats, when in pain, do their best to hide that pain. This is because to be outwardly hurt is to be vulnerable, and that can lead to predation by bigger animals. Severus too, hides his vulnerability. The things that truly matter to him, his worries, his soft and squishy bits, and loyalties all carefully locked away.

Rivalry with Minerva?? that's just good ol' unserious cat drama. Have u ever seen an indoor cat staring down a stray through the window? silly little creatures. They'll grumble about it and act like its on sight (and maybe it is!) but when you're not looking, there'll be sniffing through the glass and pretending they dont care while they nap suspiciously close by.

Starved for affection and touch. An abused stray, past all the hissing and the fear and violence, once they're finally given a chance and finally understand that they are safe, just wants to be loved. They usually end up being the most affectionate and loyal cats of all! only to those they feel safe with, of course.

And speaking of loyalty, that applies here too. He was loyal to Lily, the first and only person to show him kindness (though my feelings for her are very complicated) and he was later loyal to Dumbledore. Unfortunately, neither of these people ever truly took in the stray, not really. And so the Stray was never actually socialized, and never completely safe, and never actually given a home.

and finally.. his death. Cats have a tendency to hide when nearing death, or dying.. and as such, often die in solitude. Severus may not have exactly had a direct hand in this of course, but.. there's something about him dying in this shitty little shack, far away from the action, presumably alone (or so he thought until Harry and his friends materialized out of nowhere under the cloak.). He wasn't actually alone in his actual final moments, but in the time leading up to it? Very lonely.

In a way, one could say that Lily came closest to adopting the stray Sev cat. And maybe she would have! maybe she wanted to take in the stray at one point - had planned to, even! But her friends told her he was dirty and gross, "who knows where that things been! he's probably diseased". and The marauders kept tormenting him, making him increasingly defensive and hissy and violent, as cats often are in that situation and then it was also "look how cruel and mean he is! he'll only hurt you". and maybe when the time finally came and that defensiveness finally WAS aimed at her it only confirmed what she had already begun to believe. And then she decided she wasnt a cat person after all. Who knows? One could make an argument for all of that. Do i see things that way? maybe, maybe not. My feelings toward every character who is not Snape are largely indifferent for the most part.

Verdict: Severus Snape is a Cat. He is a little kitten meow meow. Give this man a little cauldron to curl up in asap

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Mine is in GoF when he reads an embarrassing article about Harry out loud for the class, and if I recall correctly he even makes dramatic pauses for the Slytherins to laugh. How can I not love this creature?

Do you guys have a Snape moment that’s wrong, and you feel a bit guilty for finding it funny? Mine is “Snape looked coldly at Hermione, then said ‘I see no difference’”. There’s complete chaos amongst the students, but then it ends with the teacher saying the most out of pocket thing. 😭

Yes, it was wrong for Snape to say, but I’m not going to act like it didn’t make me laugh.

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I'm always thinking about Snape with his bad table manners.

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Melancholia

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sev running errands

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the young potion master

old drawing I finished today, I have so many to finish… Anyway!

the flowers used are some that make up the 'Draught of Living Death': Asphodel, Valerian, and Wormwood leaves. References kindly taken from medieval illustrations.

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Joy glowed from her

Don’t get your hopes up, this is the happiest I will probably manage to draw Severus Snape. Someone mentioned to me here ‘feral Lily and Severus’ and it reminded me of being a dirty, scuffed-knee little kid always collecting worms in jars and picking flowers (weeds) to bring inside.

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Severus Snape headcanons?? (the young one or the adult)

HI sorry it took forever to reply but here are some random

As an adult, Snape genuinely doesn't care about the size of his nose, any attempts at demeaning him for its shape or size completely fall flat

He really doesn't realize he's an actual potion genius because no authority figure bothered to tell him. Which explains his zero tolerance for bad potion students, he's convinced they're just arrogant and lazy rather than them actually not getting the subject

Cokeworth is in the black country of England, his original accent is from that area

Teen Snape picked up smoking after his 4th year, taking a smoke break was just something everybody did at his summer job

However he quit cold turkey (half as a self punishment, the usual) at 25 when he noticed he was wheezing walking up the grand staircase. It's hard to appear menacing when you're out of breath

He has a rather contagious laughter tho most people will never find out

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About Eileen's family, I also don't think the Princes are an elite pureblood family because their name isn't part of the "Sacred 28". So at the very least they're not recognized as anything special by the other purebloods.

1, 11, 27 for Snape asks!

thank you for the ask, pal!

1. do you have a snOTP? what is it?

answered here - the tl;dr is:

11. what are your favourite scenes with book!snape?

it's a toss-up between the ‘i know what a nickname is’ scene in half-blood prince - in which harry's deciding to be a comedian and snape is clearly losing his mind - or him running rings around bellatrix in the same book. the line about 'endless reminiscences of how unpleasant azkaban is'... i gasped. he ate her up!

27. do you think snape was close to his mother?

no.

eileen snape’s standard fanon persona seems to be that she’s someone who’s extremely distant and cold. hints of this are there in canon, especially in how she behaves at king’s cross in ‘the prince’s tale’ - and how the child snape behaves around her - although i think we should extend her the grace of recognising that having joy gradually sapped from you by the twin yokes of poverty and domestic abuse would make anyone ‘sour-faced’.

many children who grow up around domestic violence feel the need to become ‘protectors’, and take on a responsibility for soothing and caring for the parent - who in almost 100% of cases will be their mother - who is experiencing abuse. the adult snape, however, has such a tendency to loathe people who are self-pitying, who complain, or who regard themselves as experiencing unfairness or difficulty that i’m afraid to say that he’d fall into the ‘you should have left him and you were selfish for not doing so’ camp, and blame his mother for her entire life for staying with his father.

even though it is, of course, never that easy. 

while we’re on eileen: my hottest take is that - contrary to the standard fanon surrounding her - there’s no way she can actually be from an elite pureblood family if her marriage to a working-class muggle man is announced in the daily prophet. the only person who ever suggests she might be is harry, who does so on the basis of no evidence, in order to force a comparison between snape and voldemort as a way of soothing his furious grief over dumbledore’s death. but one of the central jokes in voldemort’s background is that he is - by far - the most aristocratic character in the entire series, in both the magical and muggle worlds, but he is denied access to the social cachet this brings in the muggle world because he’s raised in an orphanage and never acknowledged by tom riddle sr. and in the wizarding world because he has a muggle name which means he’s denied access to the lineage-based hierarchy of wizarding society, even though he’s descended from slytherin. it doesn’t make sense, then, for snape to be in the same position - the uniqueness of voldemort’s parentage is the point.

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That Awful Boy

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Severus 🐍

Aside from Harry and Hermione, he is arguably the next character whose pov I read about the most (gen or ship wise). Can't help that he's too interesting of a character for me to ignore when written right.

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Snapetober Day 11 - Water

There was, in Cokeworth, an old well: it was said to be a thousand feet deep and a thousand years old, and to have been sealed when a child had almost fallen in it, many many years ago. It was closed with a heavy wooden lid, itself now suspiciously ancient-looking, and that lid was pierced in one place where there had been a knot in the wood. The little hole was round, and big enough for stones and coins to be thrown into the void: it had become a tradition in its own right.

One day, two small children, about ten years old, came to the well. The boy had dark hair, the girl was a flamboyant ginger: one after the other, they put a coin in the hole and made a wish. They waited a long time for the coins to hit the water, for a sound, even a slight echo, to come back to them. But the well swallowed the money in complete silence.

The boy's wish was: may Lily believe me. The girl's wish was: may Severus never lie.

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At thirteen years old, Severus, flat on his stomach and holding a torch, attempted to look at the bottom of the well. But the light did nothing: it lost its way in the darkness just like it when pointed at the sky, at night.

He threw another coin, and wished for a real family. Lily wished for Petunia to like her again.

Two coins, no sound.

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At fourteen, Severus wished for protection, and so did Lily.

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At fifteen, Severus came alone and sat on the dirty ground, keeping a watchful eye on his surroundings. He sat there a long time, looking at the hole with a cold fury that often gave way to sickening despair.

In a fit of rage, only visible from the outside by the trembling of his hands, he took a handful of mud and plugged the hole.

On the morrow, however, it was unsealed, and he wondered what Lily had wished for.

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He did not come back until he was 21, and that day he wished to be dead.

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From ages 31 to 37, he wished, although with heavy irony and a mental sneer, for quiet years. He came back every summer to grumble about Potter's latest suicide mission and, while doing so, cleared the place of overgrown weeds with a flicker of his wand. People in Cokeworth thought he had a green thumb.

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In 1996, he wished for Albus to stay.

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At some point in the summer of 1997, a silhouette appeared at dusk and stayed immobile in front of the well for a long time: the weeds were granted the right to live.

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In the summer of 1998, the city hall finally decided to renovate this part of town, and initiated large-scale construction works. A team of five men was sent to unseal the well and draft a report on how it could be permanently plugged. In substance, the question was to know if there would be a need to drain water out of it.

They were quite surprised to discover that the well's bottom, full of mud and stones, was completely dry: the foundation contractor declared that there hadn't been water in there for the last 50 years.

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