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Harry’s a bit of a dick.

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HEY.

What if I told you two people can be friends/rivals/siblings WITHOUT being lovers?

NOT EVERY PAIR OF PEOPLE HAS TO BE SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO ONE ANOTHER.

SERIOUSLY. AND I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY - INCEST IS DISGUSTING AND WRONG.

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If this isn’t amazing I don’t know what it.

A high school robotics team used a 3D printer to build a functional robotic hand they then gave to a 4-year-old born without fingers. “I’m going to paint the nails pink,” she said.

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I did a self-portrait #likeaboss

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“Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.“ -Martha Graham

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little narnia things: professor kirke’s silver apple

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perhaps she will be the one you follow into battle 

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My small, Snapey friend. 

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Regarding Snape

Ok. I’ve talked, in the past, about Severus. Several times.

I don’t disagree with people who think he’s a miserable human being who borders on outright evil from time to time - because he is. Where I differ from a lot of people who rant about Snape is that I can … understand WHY he became an asshole. It doesn’t make it right, but I understand the path that got him there.

There is, however, one VERY frequent rant I see regarding Snape that never fails to irk me.

It’s the rant wherein people bitch about Snape begging Voldemort for Lily’s life … and only hers, and use this as an indicator of just how irredeemably evil he is etc.

Let’s look at this, shall we?

Snape knew Harry was going to die - or that Voldemort would do his flat best to achieve that goal, at the very least. There was NO WAY IN HELL he could beg for Harry’s life without, you know, getting crucio’d to hell and gone or killed.

And even if, after seven long years of four-on-one hell-on-earth bullying that escalated to attempted murder, Snape was willing to try to save James’ life … does ANYONE think that Voldemort would have listened? ESPECIALLY with pretty much all the Death Eaters around his age knowing that Snape *hated* James with a passion, and would have informed Voldemort of this at some point?

But those same people would also have known that Snape had been Lily’s friend, in their early years. Which meant Voldemort would have known.

That, Snape could have used. Could have spun into the whole ‘yeah, I just want a hole to shag is all’ thing. Which is about the only argument Voldemort would have listened to.

But think about this. Snape knew Lily. He knew her very well. Knew what her temperament was like. Knew what her reaction would be to such an offer. I think Snape knew damn well Lily would tell Voldemort to sit on something spiky and spin on it. I think Snape knew that if Voldemort stormed in spewing spells, Lily wouldn’t have a chance to do *anything*.

But if Voldemort hesitated. If he talked to her. Lily might be able to do something.

He was right. She did.

Snape begging for Lily’s life bought her the minute she needed to do … whatever the hell it was she needed to do, in those final seconds. Even if all she needed to do was physically get between her son and Voldemort.

Snape knew damn well, in his heart of hearts, that James and Lily would die if Voldemort went after Harry. He knew better than to appeal to anything remotely resembling mercy with Voldemort for *both* James and Lily. He could only choose one of the two to ‘save’. Even for one, it was a hell of a gamble. And he didn’t trust James as far as he could throw the man without the aid of magic. But Lily, he knew. Lily, he could trust to do something with the time she *might* get if Voldemort did offer her her life.

And because Snape begged, because he played that situation the way he did … Harry lived, and Voldemort was ultimately defeated.

Tell me again that Snape only begging for Lily’s life makes him an amoral asshole. I dare you.

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Unpopular Opinion

I don’t think Snape was abusive to his students. Was he an asshole? Yes. Was he mean? Totally. But I do not think he was abusive. Here’s why.

Abuse as defined in the dictionary (and Internet) is “cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal”.

Many people when thinking of animals are reminded of the toad incident. Because if Neville had messed up the potion, Trevor would have died. But he didn’t.

And I know some of you are thinking “but what if he messed it up?!” or “stop excusing Snape’s shitty actions.”

I’m not doing that. Using a pet as incentive to do well is an awful thing, and it wasn’t okay. But honestly, I do not believe that Snape would have used the shrinking potion on Trevor if he did not think Neville had made it correctly.

Neville had messed up his potion before this happened, (I don’t remember if it was a different potion or he just messed up the shrinking potion the first time) but instead of just giving him a bad grade, he gave him (a mean) second chance. Because Neville now had to really really try to get it right instead of letting his nerves get the better of him.

A mean thing to do, but if Snape saw he had messed up the potion, he would have just yelled at him again. If he were truly that cruel he would have poisoned the road then have Neville hurry to make an antidote.

Neville in particular at this stage reminds me of myself. In ninth grade I had a strict algebra teacher, who I feared, because she had a reputation for being mean and taking no shit. I was never good at algebra, so I was a nervous wreck in that class. I never thought of this as abusive, because even though I was afraid of her (as a teacher who could fail me) I never feared her. Does that make sense? Moving on.

Now Hermione. The teeth incident. Debacle. Situation. Not sure what to call it. That was rude. However, he didn’t deny her from going to the hospital wing. She, as someone who needed help, went there on her own. I’m pretty sure if a student woke up puking their guts out they didn’t need permission to get help. Snape could have sent Ron or Harry to go with her, but she was perfectly capable of getting herself there without trouble.

The ‘insufferable know-it-all’ thing. I dunno. Yes, it’s mean to insinuate that a student is ‘too smart’. But Hermione didn’t let that stop her from kicking ass in every class. Teachers will call on students who they think don’t know the answer, and ignore the people who have their hand raised for a while. Personally I hated when this happened to me. But I don’t see this as ‘so terribly evil’.

Harry’s first potion class? Snape was a dick. End. (See how I can admit when a character I like did a shitty thing?) Harry looking like James was a factor to how he treated Harry, but Harry grew into a sass master as well, so that pissed him off even more.

Did Snape hate Harry? I don’t really think so. We have examples of hate in this series (The Dursley’s, Tom Riddle’s hatred of muggles, the general hate of Slytherin) and Snape had the opportunity to make Harry’s life a living hell.

Aside from a red herring antagonist plot device, and being a general asshole (again, I acknowledge this) Snape wasn’t too terrible. A lot of the time people forget that we were supposed to hate Snape. He was set up to be one of Harry’s enemies, because the story is centered around him. We don’t learn about the behind the scenes actions until like, almost the end of the series entirely.

This isn’t meant to persuade anyone. I’ve just seen a lot of hate today and wanted to show a different side of things.

Severus Snape: asshole, mean, anti-hero, bitter man with a lot of baggage. And that’s just the way I like him.

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On the topic of Professor Severus Snape

Snape is a bigot, a bully, a tool, and has a serious nice guy complex.

Snape is also a brave and brilliant wizard who was instrumental in saving the world from one of the most terrible people in the world.

These two things don’t contradict each other, and they don’t cancel each other out. Snape is a complicated dude. Like anybody, he’s got a bunch of bad and a bunch of good. This is called being a three dimensional character. That’s what makes Snape so interesting as a character, when he could’ve been a flat character of the bully teacher variety. He’s got layers, like an ogre. Or onions.

Or Dumbledore.

Or Harry Potter.

Or me and you.

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Give me princesses who are strong and kind and fierce. Give me beauty and grace and power and will. Give me something to scornfully laugh at, when a man condescendingly calls me “princess” and thinks that he has showed me my place. Give me a throne and I will reign, give me a voice and I will sing to you a song of how glittery queens found their places, give me a dream and I will fight. - text by newtmasdoesthedo

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Leonard Nimoy was a great actor and a brilliant man. I hope he's with God now.

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I say anyone who is still arguing about that dress can shove the thing up their ass.

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You will not keep me from having all my favorite actors and actresses to play all the important (and not important) characters I my movies