#”She is such a snape (bad)”

[reignof-fyre]

Just read a reddit thread and the op said "just realized that Snape only begged Voldemort for Lily's life, not James and Harry"

Yes, and I'd do the same. Why would Snape beg for Potter's life when Potter spent their school years verbally, physically, and sexually abusing him? Why would he beg for the life of a man he despised? Or the child who Voldemort wants dead, because that would end with Severus dead and, y'know, no spy for the Order.

Voldemort only agreed to let Lily live because Severus, who brought him a snippet of the prophesy, asked, and he bestowed that "gift" on Sev for his loyalty and dedication to the Death Eaters. If Sev then stretched whatever minuscule good will he had with Voldy by asking for James (his actual abuser) and the prophesy child (the child Voldy thought was a very real threat and wanted dead due to his insanity) he'd have been AK'd before he could blink, and then where the fuck would the order be without Severus Snape, spy extraordinare?

Harry would have diedvor been seriously injured first year when Quirrelmort was cursing his broom because the only one doing something was, you guessed it, Severus. Snape. All the other teachers were gaping with their thumbs up their arseholes. Because most of the teachers at hogwarts are. useless.

Severus Snape is not a good person, even I as a Pro Snape Simp Bitch can admit that. He's cold and cruel and caustic, but he is a great man. He more than deserved his redemption arc. He sacrificed everything in the name of love to protect the reckless idiot Harry James Potter and risked his life and literal soul to do as Dumbledore bid, as casting the killing curse actually marrs the soul, y'know.

You don't have to be a nice person to deserve redemption. You just have to be good and do the right thing.

[rewritingcanon]

lily clocked james so bad with her ‘toerag’ comment he had to go on a whole redemption arc can we talk about that

[sevilynne]

Having Lily as the "Best Thing That Happened" in your life is honestly just sad and fucked up.

[seleneprince]

Since I can't stop thinking about it, more memes about the Snape's werewolf daughter au! :

Part 1

(Because only SHE can call him out of his bullshit. Pisa off Potter)

(Basically her mind during most of PoA)

[moonyswarmsweaters]

me: do literally anything

my mind: I wonder which Mauraders era character would also do it too

[pangaeaseas]

ohhhh my god the lily was a bad friend to Snape thing pisses me off so fucking much. just willful misreading and frankly sometimes disturbing blaseness towards what the real problem was (not just the slur! JOINING A FUCKING HATE GROUP! and also slurs are bad--we should be able to understand this, right?) I mean one of the problems with it is that it doesn't fully understand the multiple power dynamics at play--blood status, gender, AND social class are all important in the lily/Snape and Lily/Snape/marauders dynamics. And also? I think Lily is meant to be read as not actually of a significantly higher class than Snape--she's working class but her family is slightly more financially stable and determined to hold themselves above him! So the class dynamics aren't 'rich popular girl Lily and poor bullied Snape' it's 'also poor but slightly less poor Lily'!! AND this interaction cannot be read without Snape's blood status privilege. And. Of course. The fact that him calling her a mudblood in public was a sign of him fully embracing Death Eater ideals and he went on to join the Death Eaters--having already been associating with them for a while. The initial slur isn't even forgiveable but it becomes even more heinous when you remember he was joining a group dedicated to exterminating her because of who she was. Why should she give a shit about who bullied him anymore? When we talk about what Lily and Snape are doing post Snape's Worst Memory, I would say that the fact Snape joins the freaking Death Eaters is a far worse betrayal of their friendship than Lily marrying James (which isn't even a betrayal, exactly, as she is, you know, an autonomous person with her own wants needs and opinions).

[lilithofpenandbook]

I'm starting to think maybe I was right, my mum is abusive. Not very, but still abusive.

How did I get to this conclusion? Thinking about my mum's behaviour, about my reaction to her. Somehow I got to thinking about Snape, who no one sees as a victim because he doesn't back down, he still fights his abusers and keeps on fighting them. He's the one in the wrong, despite being the victim.

And that's what made me think of something my mum says any time childhood trauma is brought up in the conversation: "If you were actually afraid of me, you wouldn't be talking back to me" "Would you still be so rude to me if you were actually traumatised?" "If I had traumatised you, you'd be too scared to speak like this to me", and similar stuff.

If you were actually abused, you'd behave like an actual victim

And that just reminded me of Snape, and how he isn't seen like a victim because he's not a "perfect victim", he isn't outwardly anxious, vulnerable, or delicate, he doesn't cry when yelled at, he doesn't stutter. He's outwardly strong, he's got self control. When emotional, he's angry, he's hostile. He's rude and sarcastic, including to the people he should be afraid of. He doesn't have any of the pretty, romanticised symptoms of trauma. He has all the ugly, real symptoms. The symptoms that mask his trauma.

Like mine. To my mother's face I am loud, I am rude, I am defensive. I show no fear. It's certain things though, that scare me. Certain things that make me angry and cry. Not in front of her. She doesn't see what's not in front of her face. She's only seen one panic attack, and that I didn't call a panic attack, I just said I couldn't breathe and my dad helped calm me but I never said it was a panic attack. I've had panic attacks in college. My friends know more about my anxiety, my trauma, more than my own mother. My teachers have seen me have panic attacks in the middle of class, after I've been stuck trying to keep it together all day. My sister once saw me, when I came home from class, exhausted by trying to keep the anxiety down to the point that even with the emotions gone the pain still had me in bed for hours afterwards. Nobody with a healthy relationship with their mother does that, do they?

But I'm supposedly not abused, not a victim, because I do not act like one in the least.

Yet if Severus Snape is a victim regardless of how he presented his trauma, maybe I'm also being abused despite my apparent lack of fear towards my mum.

Maybe that's why he's my favourite character.

Because neither of us look like we're traumatized.

Okay, so the abuse I face isn't so bad, and perhaps I'm overtly sensitive to be traumatised by it, but if I'm having panic attacks because of it then there is something there, right?

[agathokakolog1cal]

my mum casually drops lore on me part two- she used to work with alan rickmans wife??? and like??? knew him???

[lemongrass77777-moved]

I will never be over the fact that Lily Potter was the one who defeated Voldemort in 1981 and she was never given proper credit for it in canon. We barely even know anything about her and she was the one who defeated the snake faced bitch the first time around. It drives me insane. Lily deserved so much better than what the books ever gave her.

[aj-lenoire]

i do not enjoy harry potter anymore and even when i did, snape was not a character i ever liked, but for some reason my ‘for you’ page is just full of dedicated snape stan accounts and i hate it

[halfblood-princes-crown]

James Potter's ass is richer than Lucius Malfoy's.

It’s also dirtier. I recommend soap and water between the ass cheeks instead of just letting the water run down.

Have a nice day

[notfeelingthyaster]

everytime i see someone excusing snape's actions, i remember little harry potter, just as abused and neglected, hated by most of the other students at least thrice, reviled and loved never really for himself, but for the symbol

and how kind, how good, he was

[seriousbrat]

honestly i get whiplash bc I see takes that are like "jkr HATED SNAPE he's her least favourite character and she mistreated him" and then immediately I'll see someone else b like "jkr LOVED SNAPE he was woobified and his actions excused" . ladies calm down. he is simply complex and multifaceted. he is beautiful yet ugly. he is hateable yet lovable. he is brave yet cowardly. he is beyond our understanding and yet he lives in every one of us.

[messrsrarchives]

what's the argument against snape that you hate the most? Because it doesn't make sense, is a lie, isn't canon, ect

-a curious snape hater

snily, first of all. i did a rant here about them and a video yap here about them but the idea that snape was creepily obsessed with lily? i hate it. is he a good person? no, absolutely not. was he creepily obsessed??? no.

but i think the big thing that i've ALSO yapped about, is "he held her dead bo-" no he didn't nuh uhhhh and i've ranted about that here

i'm like in the ➡️ middle ⬅️ yk? where i can appreciate his character, delve into and prove stupid things like this wrong, BUT can also recognise that he is a shite person in canon and is inexcusable in a lot of areas. so not a snater at alllll but not a sneep either (they scare me actually)

OH YK WHAT ACTUALLY !!! the idea that he only wanted to save lily. which i've also yapped about on this page but can't find it but !!! i mean first of all,,, yeah. his bully and a kid he's never met might not rank as high on his personal priorities as lily but !?!

when he goes to dumbledore are we actually imagining that,,, dumbledore isn't going to get them all??? (and if we're taking films as canon like people do the body hugging scene, he does say "save them all") BUT LIKE !!! i don't think any part of snape is like "i'll ask him to save lily and he'll leave the others behind :D" like no !!! he knows they would all be saved??? his panicked mind is of courseeee going to think of his one and only connection in life but not,,, not at the detriment of her family??? idk that whole thing has just always confused and i think it says more about dumbledore that people assume snape wanted james and harry dead as if,,, dumbledore would knock on the door and go "hi, i am saving lily. no, no, nooo james :/ stay here with your child :D"

like yeah okay maybe he wants james dead 😭 but he didn't askkk for them to be killed or expect them to be killed so that argument makes no sense to me. i too would only ask for my friend if i was fighting the clock, was incredibly stressed, had been through a war, was turning my back on everything i have. i wouldn't list off every family member i'd just be like yeah okay save her (and by extent i expect the others too)

[thebisexualwreckoning]

I love how out of all the characters Draco was the only one who didn't name their child after a FREAKING DEAD PERSON LIKE A PSYCHOPATH AND PUTTING ALL THE EXPECTATIONS AND PRESSURE THAT CAME WITH ON THAT CHILD'S SHOULDERS.

[pixiesnooze]

reading harry potter fanfics where ppl idolise and make honest to God death eaters the “good ppl” and bash the weasleys and make harry seek refuge with certain slytherins and make ron evil and make hermione evil is sooooooooo like okay first of all i dont get very far into these fanfics to start with but oh my god it literally reads like idek its shit actually and idgaf about the effort it took to write my God