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A hidden snapshot of a gossip moment in the headmaster’s office?

Maybe this would be discovered by their subject of discussion much later, who then decides to keep it for a good laugh.

╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ (I love them)

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練習

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"Oh so you like the Harry Potter books?"

No I like Severus Snape there's a difference

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"Don't leave me alone again"

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Inktober Day 18 - Magic Lessons

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something endearing about Snape

Something i’ve been kind of mulling over and thinking about in regards to Snape– and which I find frustrating, but endearing– is how… he is continually disadvantaged and disregarded by systems of power and persons of authority… but he chooses to work within their framework, anyways. 

Snape is Lawful-neutral, to his own detriment. Hear me out.

Like, as a student, he gets bullied. It’s 4 against 1, and he’d have a hard time picking them off if he wanted to go a more aggressive or lethal route. In any case, he tends to be reactionary, rather than necessarily going out of his way to find and attack them… So, he tries to get them expelled, because that would be a way to remove all 4 of his threats at once, and it’s not as if they don’t consistently break the rules… Shouldn’t people who break the rules and mistreat others be punished? So when he’s almost lead to his death at the Shrieking Shack, he appeals to the system of authority (of whom Dumbledore is the purveyor, in this case) with what he feels is a pretty airtight case against his bullies… 

…and he gets written off, and blackmailed into keeping his mouth shut.

If it were me, that kind of slap in the face would ensure i never respected another authority figure again in my life tbh. The Law and the gods that govern it would be dead to me. Anyways…

Being a werewolf does not inherently make Lupin a bad person. But being a good person does not make Lupin inherently safe. The point is: when you transform into a werewolf, you lose control of yourself, and that can result in you killing, maiming, or infecting other people. Lupin knows this. He’s known it for over 20 years,

As of 1993, there was this great new discovery: the Wolfsbane Potion, which helps to curb the effects of lycanthropy, right? It’s super expensive and super hard to make, but it’s an effective way to mitigate the more vicious effects of a transformation– it turns the drinker into a harmless wolf, rather than a werewolf, at the time of the full moon. A wolf, who is easier to control or subdue if one is confronted with it, and who seems to retain some semblence of control during the transformation (Lupin having described himself as curling up in his office during his transformations).

You may be thinking that wolfsbane potion is the closest thing to a preventative  that the Wizarding World has circa 1993, and you’d be right. It’s not a cure, and people who drink it can still infect others, but damn, it makes it way more manageable.

We know that Severus, on more than one occasion, goes out of his way to give Lupin his potion (whether Lupin continually forgets to take it, or purposefully “forgets” to take it as a small power play/intimidation game against Snape is up for interpretation). Either way, we know that Lupin regularly forgets to take the life-changing potion unless prompted, which kind of makes him out as reckless. A timebomb. 

Severus, who is not only a virtuoso on the Dark Arts and all that it entails (and thus, academically, very informed on the dangers that (non-medicated) Werewolves pose), is also intimately and personally aware of the threat Lupin poses to a school full of children as well as the staff, because of his experience in the 70s. Snape brings all of this up to Dumbledore… 

…who repeatedly dismisses his well-founded and logical fears. 

Snape is still beholden to Dumbledore’s insistance that he keep his mouth shut. Which he does for most of the year. The very explicit parameters of the system are: do not tell anyone that Lupin is a werewolf. 

So, being the logical thinker that Snape is, he looks for (and finds) a way to achieve his desired outcome (informing people that Lupin is a werewolf) in a way that does work within those parameters. He can’t tell anyone outright that Lupin is a werewolf, but like… what if someone figured it out on their own?

Then we have Snape in the Shrieking Shack with the kids, Sirius, and Lupin. 

Harry, in the moment after Black disarmed them all, straight-up wanted to kill Sirius. He gets his wand back, and he is about to fucking murder this guy, until crookshanks sits over his heart.

Snape comes up the stairs to the 2nd floor of the shack, right? He’s wearing the Invisibility cloak. No one knows he’s there or hears him coming. He could have killed Sirius in an instant, without anyone knowing. He could kill Sirius AND Lupin if he wanted to, and dump the corpses on the ministry steps, and convince the minister that he had deduced that they were working together months ago. 

He could easily explain to the minister that he knew they were childhood friends, that Lupin started working at Hogwarts at the exact same time Black “wanted to infiltrate” Hogwarts, and that his speculations were dismissed. He could say all of this with the kids and Dumbledore to corroborate his story (since he arrives at the Shrieking Shack BEFORE the kids get the low-down on Pettigrew) and he would STILL get his order of Merlin (maybe 2?) But instead of killing them… 

…he disarms and restrains them. 

He’s like “Yeah, I’m handing you off to the Dementors, dickhead” but it’s important to remember… he disarms them, restrains them, and is willing to turn them over to the “authorities.” Even though, at this point, he whole-heartedly believes that 1. Black is a murderer, who killed like 23 people, and who broke out of wizard prison and 2. Lupin, a werewolf who has consistently not taken his potion and whom Snape believes has conspired to kill him in the past, is aiding and abetting said murderer… Severus Snape does not take the law into his own hands. He’s not about Vigilante Justice.

And… he gets disarmed, thrown against a wall, and almost ends up attacked by a werewolf for it later. heh

This is just up to the first 3 books, because i just finished re-reading them, but i’m certain there are more examples of these types of exchange in subsequent books. In any case, I love how the books have this consistent theme of “Harry distrusts authority, disrespects it, and challenges the system,” that’s all very good. 

But i also love that Severus Snape, the dude that everyone argues is super unfair, petty, spiteful, etc… attempts to use strategic thinking to operate within the paramaters of these systems, and tries to maintain respect for these systems, and consistently gets his ass handed to him for it. I love you, you lawful-neutral dumbass. 

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もしも、の世界。

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if lily suddenly appeared ootp/hbp

Lily wasn’t unlike Petunia. In all her pictures, she was so young and pretty–but in person, Harry saw the way her neck was a little long, her face a little sharp, her gaze a touch cruel when it landed on select members of the Order. Sometimes, when her voice rose, it was shrill and cutting, and Harry found himself wincing as he was unwillingly thrown back into some ancient childhood memory of his aunt looming over him. But when she turned toward Harry, she was warm. He wondered if Dudley could only see Petunia in that way, or if he would ever see all of her ragged edges as Harry intimately knew; he was cursed to see both from the beginning, beauty and ugliness and all.

The sisters shared a vice or two as well. Lily did so openly, defiantly, filling Sirius’s kitchen with cigarette smoke as she leaned back in her chair, unconcerned with Mrs. Weasley’s dark muttering. Petunia had hid hers, a secret rebellion in her purse, and only when Vernon was out; she would go out in the back garden, leaning against the house and staring into the sky, leaving behind only the ghost outline of her sin.

She liked to wear Muggle clothes and barely remembered to put on shoes if she had to leave. She cut her hair herself–just above her shoulders, just barely enough to tie back–and wore dark red lipsticks, the stains of which she left on various glasses around the house. She didn’t have her wedding band anymore, but she’d dug up the Potter family ring and took it for herself, promising Harry she’d give it to him when he was of age. He caught her scrutinizing it at times, her knees pulled up to her chest while she puffed along on a cigarette after dinner.

When Snape came over, they would tear into each other in a familiar way. Sirius would disappear then, as would nearly everyone else; no one wanted to interrupt their strange rituals. Harry, drawn to his mother’s presence more so than he was repelled by Snape’s, had dared linger in the same room while they mostly ignored him, too caught up in themselves. Harry hadn’t understood it at first–how anyone could be friends with Snape–but now he saw it with increasingly clarity, the way they’d really had no one but each other, both too vicious for anyone else. But when Lily’s attention was inevitably drawn back to her son–and it would be, because she loved Harry, loved him so much it was overwhelming–he found he didn’t mind Snape’s sneering replies as much. He was still an asshole–there was no denying that. But Harry could smirk and laugh and get him back, and have Lily’s approval before she, too, attacked.

 Remus was friendly with Lily, though it wasn’t quite the same as she was with Snape. She was quite soft with him, and she asked after him in an almost maternal way. She was not friendly with Sirius, which had puzzled Harry at first, for he’d believed that they’d been friends. However, for all the bad blood between them (most of which seemed centered around Snape), Lily did not try to keep Harry from Sirius, and Sirius did not try to keep Harry from Lily. That, and Sirius didn’t dare speak ill of her in front of him, despite the fact Harry could tell he was on the verge of it.

 “Lily loves you so much,” Sirius had told him sincerely. “She’s so proud of you, no matter what you do.”

 “Sirius loves you,” Lily had told him not long after when they sat alone in the living room one night. “You and James. He loves you both so much.”

 His mother claimed to like his friends, though Harry wasn’t sure he always believed her. He knew she liked Hermione–she asked after her a lot–and while she was friendly toward the Weasleys, she gravitated toward Ginny over Ron or even the twins. She was quite neutral about Mr. Weasley, but Harry could sense that Lily and Mrs. Weasley were at odds: Mrs. Weasley was too stuffy for Lily’s tastes, and to Mrs. Weasley, Lily was much too wild and innappropriate.

 And then there was Dumbledore.

Petunia had spoken ill of Dumbledore, and for some reason, Harry had assumed that Lily would have a contrary opinion to her sister. But Lily was quite cold with him. Everyone had to leave the room when she demanded to speak her mind to him–and she never held back. She had made it clear from the beginning that she would never forgive him for leaving Harry with her sister–but once she reconciled with Snape, she was furious about whatever business there was between Dumbledore and Snape, too. She didn’t like how he was leading the Order; she didn’t like how he was withholding information; she didn’t like that Snape was his spy; she didn’t like that Harry was constantly in danger, and seemingly no safer at Hogwarts than anywhere else. And, even though she didn’t like Sirius much, she was angry about that, too–constantly threatening to go to the Ministry herself to clear his name.

Apparently, James had been the loyal follower of Dumbledore, not Lily. She hadn’t gone into detail, but from the sound of it, surviving as a Muggleborn in the late seventies had been a feat. Because of her blood status, she hadn’t been able to work or even frequent certain establishments. It hadn’t helped that she wasn’t someone to keep her opinions to herself. When she’d married James, she’d been young and in trouble.

 “Of course I loved James, Harry,” Lily had assured him, taking his hand. “But we definitely married much sooner than either of us intended because of the war. Twenty is very, very young.”

Initially, upon Lily’s return, Dumbledore had been kind and welcoming toward her. But as time wore on, Harry realized that he didn’t completely trust her.

He didn’t seem to like it much when Snape and Lily got to talking after their reconciliation, either. Harry supposed that having his spy talk with the woman who opposed his position of spy was, in general, dangerous for everyone in the Order.

Still, Harry wasn’t worried about Snape. For the first time in his life, he was fairly confident that he was on his side. Or–well–he was on Lily’s side, which was definitely on Harry’s side. 

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“Look…at…me…” he whispered.

The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Severus Snape

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pigeons are fornicating on my balcony and my comic is overwhelming me, so here’s a sketch of vampire snape that you’ve been dreaming a little too much about as of late

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First snow.

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Hello! Long time no see. My external hard disk broke right after I created pixiv account in May (I suddenly couldn’t access it, let alone transfer the content), and this is the only pic I drew in 2020 that I could recover. I consider it an unfinished work and I was gonna edit it again but I couldn’t even access the psd file’s folder and had not saved in high resolution……oh well………. With the corona crisis and other life stuff, I don’t have time to draw anything or get involved in any online community. (I haven’t drawn in 5 months but lol it’s not surprising because I always draw sporadically) I’ll probably fade away again but I hope you guys are healthy and safe wherever you are! ❤️

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Created for the 2020 Snape Big Bang!

Based on the fanfic “Everyone Needs A Friend” written by Claude Amelia Song on FFN. 

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I’m so glad I finally finished this, even if it is a bit late! I was so inspired by Amelia’s fic, of the scene where Snape has to push a young Hermione on a swing, and I just HAD to draw it! I hope you guys like it!

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I am by no means opposing the romantic interpretation, but somehow i'm really into platonic snily. Lily's friendship changed little Severus' life, and i like to think that he always had a soft spot for her despite of them falling apart. Platonic love can be as strong as romantic attraction, but it's rarely represented as such in the media.

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Snape is fucking done with 2020.