#ALSO that post by the marauders stan who read the books for the first time and got upset upon reaching SWM

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@annasghosts I didn't want to pile on that post any more lol but I wanted to reply to this because it's interesting.

To me headcanon always implied something that could feasibly be canon. Like, to me it means "in my head, this is basically canon". So presumably something that you think would fit believably into existing canon but just hasn't been confirmed. So a headcanon would be "I think Vernon Dursley is a chelsea supporter", like u can't just go "I headcanon that the avengers came to hogwarts and were sorted into a secret fifth house".

It does seem like it's been warped over time. In some ways I think this is okay, such as saying "my headcanon is that Sirius was gay" even though iirc jkr said he wasn't*. Because even though it's not true in terms of the author's intent, it also doesn't contradict canon in any significant way. There's no concrete information either way in the actual text and it doesnt (or shouldn't lol. anyway...) change anything about the character or the story.

however since most of the fandom has Pretending There Is No Info About the Marauders disease, this just leads people to use 'headcanon' to mean "any random thing I made up on the spot which I personally would like to be true" to the point it has no meaning lol. Since the fanon Marauders are basically just OCs at this point, their "headcanon" are just character traits that they've given to their original characters. Which is kind of funny.

*edit: apparently jkr did not say that and I misremembered/was misinformed. BUt I do think it's likely that he wasn't intended to be gay, so I think my point stands anyway.

[remusawoooo]

came across a very lame and obviously unoriginal anti-w0lfstar post that was written to uplift pr0ngsf0ot claiming canon plausibility as the reason. (honestly, pr0ngsf0ot is compelling by itself idk this new surge of remus/w0lfstar hate but wtv- they are fictional so you do you ig)

*censoring cause i dont want this post to clog up shipper space, its not for that.

this is a rant post so feel free to skip but know that none of this is ever directed to my lovely mutuals. i am usually the type to block and move if you genuinely annoy me (which you all dont <3)

so, a hot take: Sirius is really not as obsessed with James as you all make it out to be, in canon.

is that his best friend? absolutely

did he love him very much? duh

was he devoted or wanted to dedicate his life to James? that's where you lose me icl

if anything James was more interested in entertaining sirius, in the one prominent memory we see of them. there is enough context clues and testimonies to conclude that they were very close. and this is what interested me to ship and explore their dynamic (not a post to say you can only ship with canon hints. im just talking within the topic of my rant lol). there is only one person sirius shows utmost devotion to and that's Harry. that's his godSON, his heir and honestly his everything post Halloween.

it is entirely surprising to me how definitive sirius // james shippers sound when they claim it would be more or most canon. both r/s and j/s operate on the same level of delusion and are informed by canon. yes, I think there is a great possibility in canon that sirius was into james- i love the appeal of pining and even heartbreak if not reciprocated. (I also accept this pining and heartbreak in remus//james if anyone is into that wink wink) similarly, I think that remus and sirius could be romantic starting anywhere in the timeline. a boyish sweet love or secret longing and heartbreak or coming together in their tragedy as adults. endless possibilities, it seems, for all of them.

Anyway, back to the point of this post. its insane to me when w0lfstar in particular gets pushback with emphasis on canon like there isn't chemistry and history between them right on the pages. its not a magnified reading. its there. in their dialogue, their physicality and its Harry clocking all of this. these are two alive and kicking characters in the books that shippers read. idek how many times this has to be said. people genuinely believed this relationship would lead to queer representation in the book, explicit or implied. people did not have hindsight, believed jkr to be a better person lmao. you don't have to accept this reading but you also cannot be so narrow that you refuse to see this reading as a valid experience for other people.

once again, you don't have to ship w0lfstar. at all. maybe the popularity and general hype is the annoying part. there are many reasons to not engage with new age w0lfstar shippers btw. but god this "stanning fictional characters" or hating one immensely for the benefit of another, unironically, is so corny. giving stan twt like what imaginary competition is happening?

another thing that ticks me off is the notion that w0lfstar are not close at all. yeah, i do complex magic to help out people i don't really like for the hell of it as well. ik there will be some justification to those who want to prove their point by any means. "sirius is smart so he wanted to do advanced magic" "he actually did it for james" or wtv else comes up. idk how to tell you that marauders are friends first of all. yes, james and sirius are closer but there is no hierarchy with remus. he is not as close obviously, but he is also on the edges by all of their character designs. sirius, in his recounts, never talks of remus as someone below him or largely excluded, just as someone who was conforming, compliant and the "good boy". it is also quite clear in their communication that they were good friends. james first befriended the quiet kid cause he liked him, supported him financially because that is his good friend. he did not act out of pity. that is a great disservice to his character as well.

this is my personal take/opinion. sirius would obviously mention his relationship with james to harry and not remus' and his friendship. i don't think remus and sirius were secretly closer btw, but it is a bit odd that w0lfstar shippers are expected to write james as the #1 priority for sirius when they are not the focus?(this is a very small group of people btw, miniscule in fact. i'm just ranting to rant, not a larger problem) ig my first hot take comes down to this too. you can interpreted the text as you want and that is okay. you can read sirius as obsessed with james but it is not canon. so to dunk on other shippers when they don't share the sentiment is?? mind you, i am well aware of w0lfstar shippers sidelining or flanderizing james in their interpretations and have ranted about that too many times not that that's relevant here. just pointed out in case anyone misinterprets lol

ship anything man idc but saying w0lfstar has no canon support or to insinuate that w0lfstar shippers are shipper pilled (this made me laugh, what are you doing at the coven meeting friend?) is a bit ?? my point, if there is any, hypocrites piss me off or maybe its the lack of self-awareness? how to interpret the dynamics, character reactions in au, canon divergence, fiction is really all up to you. you can honestly remove remus and replace him with gilderoy lockhart in the marauders for all i care, its fictional. but you can't bring up canon and say something blatantly false to rag on shippers of a ship you don't like. that's just silly now. extremely condescending as well.

[quarter-lif3crisis]

Hellloo. I don't have that much of an audience to make a 'get to know me' post (kinda feel awkward 😭) but still heyy!

Fandoms:

Formula 1 : I always knew of its existence but I properly got into it this year. What dragged me into this u ask? It was Lewis' move to Ferrari and my fyp was just blowing up with ppl going crazy😭. Also the 2nd thing that i learnt about right after joining was Brocedes...... yh

Fave drivers : Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri + Alex Albon. Also LOVE seb + nico

[No hate against ANY driver is welcome. Having opinions is fine but h8, like the shit I've been seeing lately, is not allowed.]

KPOP : Started listening to kpop in 2020 during covid and my first grp were BTS. I listen to everything, if the songs good, it's good.

Grps I stan: Stray kids, NCT (😭),WayV, Itzy, The boyz, P1 Harmony, Ateez, BTS, G-IDLE, The Rose

Grps I stan stan: txt (MY ULTS), Seventeen, Boynextdoor, enhypen.

My ults bias' : Beomgyu and bangchan. Probs suga aswll.

Anime: Used to watch anime in a small corner of a screen on yt. It came in parts. I think that says enough. I haven't watched alot tbh 😭 I'm not the best when it comes to watching stuff. But here r some of my favs so far

Jujutsu Kaisen: Geto Suguru, Gojo Satoru (they come as a pack 😌- Gojo is such a cool character who wouldn't love him? But I'd defo chose geto over him) , Itadori Yuji, Zenin Maki , Choso, Nanami Kento and Inumaki Toge [stay away Gege]

Moriarty the Patriot: (LOVE THIS SHIT) only correct way to watch it is in dub. The only anime I've watched in dub. William Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes and Albert Moriarty. Tbh I love everyone

Haikyuu: This shit is soul healing (on the last season). Hinata Shoyo, Kuroo Tetsuro, Oikawa Toru, Iwaizumi Hajime, Coah Ukai, Sugawara Koshi, Tsukishima Kei, Bokuto Kōtarō + Akaashi Keiji

Tokyo Ghoul : Kaneki Ken deserves the world. That's it

Reading: I like manhwas/manhuas. Haven't read a lot of mangas tho- only read death note and jjk. Just like to read tbh, been reading for ages so ik where to use words but dk why or what they mean😭. Can't rlly list all the books I've read cuz I don't remember half of them but here r some of my fave series :

The Shadowhunter Chronicles: First read them in 2018, I've been waiting for a Kit/Ty book since then😭.

All for the Game series: This shit is good. There r alot of trigger warnings but shit is good. Six of crows/ Crooked kingdom (currently reading but love it)

Some of my fav books r Circe, A thousand splendid suns, The secret history, If we were villains, 1984. Idk man I have alot of fav books 😭

Was also in the Marauders fandom which is y there's some marauders stuff here and there but the fandom got toxic pretty quick and I just got bored idky😭😭. Don't read the fics anymore + I'm not that active in the fandom but still have love for it. The fics that I read (not alot) were TOP TIER tho. I read alot of drarry and I will get some looks for this but tomarry BUT its like time travel fics TRUST ME they're so gooooddd. I read one on a whim cuz I was bored.

TV shows/ Movies : like I sed not the best watcher. But here are some of my favs:

Save me (kdrama), Weak hero class 1 (kdrama), To my star (kdrama), DP (kdrama), Alice in the borderland (jdrama), The Originals (tv), Merlin (tv), Hannibal (tv), The good bad mother (kdrama), Strangers from Hell (kdrama), 21st century girl (movie), Brooklyn 99 (tv), The Amazing World of Gumball (tv), The edge of 17 (movie), Fight Club (movie), Lady Bird (movie), Shutter Island (movie), Parasite (movie), The Shining (movie), Prisoner of Azkaban/Chamber of Secrets (movie)

Youtubers : not gonna be posting alot about ytbers and I don't watch alot of ppl but here r some :

Yh I think that's about it tbh I think....

Sam + Colby. Willne + James Marriott (yes ik they have diff channels but they come as a duo. I LOVE THEM) Arthur Tv. Arthur Hill. Chris MD. George Clarkey

Quadrant. The Boys. Rotten Mango

[ottogatto]

Hey Honey!! What are your opinions on people saying about giving Malferret a redemption arc?? I honestly hate his character!! What are ur opinion?? + Who are ur favourite Golden Trio Era Characters excluding Severus cuz we know he is ur fav!! P.S - I am a marauder+Severus stan together!! Is that a bad thing??

Hi! Thanks for the ask.

I don’t like Draco. Reading what he did to the Trio triggered me one day (I was bullied for years and he did something to the Trio that my bullies used to do), which had me try to sleep off an afternoon suddenly. There’s no sense in claiming he deserved a redemption arc. If you need a redemption arc, you’ve done horrible things, you are a horrible person, which is why you need something to repent from. But his fans say he deserves a redemption arc because they don’t acknowledge Draco did horrible things, or at least don’t care about the impact. They don’t see him at fault. Which should normally mean that he doesn’t need a redemption arc. But Draco has canonically been a horrible character in canon, one that did not repent in a thorough form. Draco fans (at least part of them) don’t understand the logic of a redemption arc. I’m pretty set on it: Draco didn’t have a redemption arc, and that’s what matters in the end. If his fans are so ashamed to have him as a fav character, knowing he’s so shitty they whine he lacks a redemption arc, it’s pretty sad. It’s almost as if they don’t love Draco, uh. They want a Snape, they just don’t want the mainstream unpopularity that comes with it, and they want to have Drarry etc. They crave the brilliance of Snape’s character. Why do you think they’re so jealous Snape got a redemption arc and Draco didn’t? So I find this pathetic as a whole on their part. Draco is at best a character I don’t care for, at worst one that I do come to hate, like this time he triggered trauma-related reminiscence in me (while Snape never did). Whether they give Draco a redemption arc in their fics or not is not really my problem. What matters to me is canon and their behavior to Snape fans.

Other than Severus, I like Luna and Percy.

Of course being a marauder + Snape stan isn’t a bad thing. The issue never was being a fan of the marauders or Snape in the first place. It’s the harassement and idiocy that comes with snaters, who often are marauderfen. Idiocy, because they completely lack reading comprehension (often times literally as they haven’t read the canon books), and twist canon into something unrecognizable (one of the main marauderfen even did a slip/lapsus and admitted that if Rowling participated into a marauder era film, they wouldn’t follow the fans’ headcanons and would make the marauders recognizable as full-blown, inexcusable bullies). The other problem is the constant Snape hate amongst marauderfen, while amongst Snape fans, you don’t get constant marauder hate. You criticize the marauders and explore their darkness, instead of turning them into shiny rainbows to feel better about loving a gang of bullies with privileges (I mean, Snape is a bully, one hell of a bastard, but I don’t need to turn him into an angel to love him and excuse everything he did, on the contrary I like to explore his brokeness on normal circumstances). You counter marauderfen because they’ve kept harassing Snape fans for nothing. The fact the Snapedom is more honest, closer to canon, but also less hateful, is the reason (I think) that explains why there are quite a bunch of marauder fans who joined the Snapedom instead of the marauder fandom (so you’re definitely not alone here). If you look for recent posts in marauder tags, often it will be flooded with Snape and Snape fan hate. Simply put, the Snape fandom is less toxic by itself, and you won’t get shit on for seeming to pull a legitimate defense for a character (whether a marauder or Snape), while you will get bullied by your own if you dare do so for Snape in the current marauder fandom. Remember. Loving a character never was the problem; the fans’ reactions are. And I know I seem pretty anti marauder (it’s true I can’t stand James Potter or the sirius-lupin ship), but it’s a matter of 1) personal opinions, 2) Snape defense that often requires pointing out the marauders’ flaws. Neither of them should dictate whom to love or not. I have no right to tell you you’re wrong for loving a character. And you know what? If you start to make marauder content that is Snape neutral or pro Snape, I’d be supportive. I recently said in a post that I found it so sad, the way the marauders lost their potential amongst the marauder fandom, especially when it’s getting lost to hysterical, nonsensical Snape hate... to snaters. That it would be so good if everything could be reconciled; if there was a sort of... new marauder fandom that was born from the Snapedom (= more canonically accurate). So no, I’m not gonna throw a fit just because you happen to love characters from two fandoms in "war". I don’t see the point. Never think you’re bad for doing so. I find it even cool, brave and healthy, because you go exactly against a war that shouldn’t have been born in the first place. You’ll definitely find people who agree with you in the Snapedom (and way more peaceful/polite than me)!

Sorry for the long post, I don’t really know how or what to express, but I hope you understood? If you’ve got any more question, you can always ask again!

[inthewild-flowers]

fic masterlist!

This is a masterlist of all my fics. Most of them can be found on AO3, although there is a Tumblr Drabble section at the end.

I’ll be updating this every time I post a new fic/finish posting a multi chapter fic. Enjoy!

Oneshots

Weak In The Knees

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Word Count: 575

Summary: Kind of just a whole lot of Wolfstar fluff. There's dancing involved.

Other: Maybe a muggle au?? I’m not entirely sure tbh, pretty cute if I do say so myself, the title comes from the Serena Ryder song weak in the knees.

Bright Yellow Ducks

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): James Potter/Lily Evans, background Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Word Count: 2114

Summary: Lily works at a corner store, and one day the Marauders walk in on a quest for ice cream.

Other: Muggle au, I’m pretty sure it was based on a post I saw but I wrote it a few years ago so I’m honestly not sure

Earth Angel

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Word Count: 674

Summary: I love fics where Remus is just an absolute angel, so here’s my version of that. Sirius has a crush on the cute guy who works at the bakery in his neighbourhood and finally get a chance to talk to him.

Other: Remus works at a bakery au, I wrote this after reading The London Underground Book Of Love by Children_of_the_Shadows on AO3 (absolutely would recommend, it’s amazing) and it’s probably one of my favourite fics I’ve written, the title is from the song Earth Angel by The Penguins

Gilderoy Lockhart Is A Dick (But His Dickery Has Some Interesting Consequences)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, background James Potter/Lily Evans

Word Count: 2699

Summary: When Remus finds out Gilderoy is cheating on him, the next thing he has to do is find out who he's cheating with. And if that person happens to be Sirius Black, well, Remus is okay with that. Based off of the joke me and my sister have about Legend of Korra: both of Mako's girlfriends leave him for each other.

Other: Muggle au, funny, crack fic, way more sex jokes than I usually write but it fits with the whole vibe of this fic

Text Me

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Word Count: 566

Summary: Written for girlwithacrown’s finish this fic challenge. My take on the second half of “Remus is a bookstore owner and Sirius comes in looking for a book during coronavirus lockdown” (might wanna read her first half tho lol).

Other: Here is @girlwithacrown ‘s first half of the fic, and here is her collection with the other fics that people wrote for their own versions of the second half!

Padfoot Won’t Leave

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Word Count: 2453

Summary: At the end of Harry's third year, Remus and Sirius have a plan to get Harry away from the Dursleys.

Other: crack fic, I tried my best to make it funny, someone sent a post to the wolf star games 2020 discord that said that there aren't enough “Sirius makes himself at home at the Dursley’s house because there’s nothing they can do to make him leave” fics and then we as a group decided to fix that. Here’s the collection of fics we wrote for it! :)

Rooftop Ramblings

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Aziraphale/Crowley

Word Count: 526

Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley share a cigarette on a rooftop, and wish that things could be different.

Other: pining, the whole plot is literally just pining, written for a dtiys based on this art by @whiteleyfoster

yoga (sirius’s way)

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus/Sirius

Word Count: 1043

Summary: Remus decides to start doing yoga to get some exercise during quarantine, and naturally, Sirius wants to try as well.

Other: Quarantine fic!!, domestic fluff, inspired by this art by @gaeilgelupin

two bros, going on a brocation, five feet apart cause they’re not gay

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus/Sirius

Word Count: 1927

Summary: In which Sirius takes Remus on a surprise Christmas vacation

Other: Christmas fic!!, so much fluff, :))

🎶 Remus is a swearwolf 🎶

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus/Sirius, James/Lily/Regulus

Word Count: 2694

Summary: Regulus sighed. “Come on, Sirius, let’s get you off this thing and then you’ll feel better.” They pried Sirius’s hands off the bar and helped him out of the rollercoaster, where he stood for a moment on shaky legs, clutching Regulus’s arm.“I’m going to get some mint chocolate,” he declared once his legs had regained some of their strength, “and then we’re going to the haunted house and I’m getting my revenge.”

Other: A sequel to ice ice baby by @pan-and-ready-to-stan, 90% banter, a LOT of swearing, fluff

would it kill you if we kissed

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus/Sirius

Word Count: 1741

Summary: Sirius leaned his head against the window and let his eyes flutter shut. Maybe if he slept, some of the horrible things would go away. Maybe if he slept, he would wake up to find that he was just on a normal road trip with one of his best friends. Maybe if he slept, he could forget the reason he was here at all.

Other: hurt/comfort, and also getting together!! bc I love get together fics :)

(i thought) i knew you 

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus/Sirius

Word Count: 1432

Summary: Sometimes Sirius thinks that he might be okay. That maybe he’ll make it through this. He’s broken up with people before, hasn’t he? He’s been heartbroken before, and he’s always made it through. He’s survived so many things in his life that it seems silly that this would be the thing to break him.

Other: oh boy is there angst, that’s it that’s the fic just angst, there is a hopeful ending though??, there’s some super vague sort of references to self harm but it doesn’t like. happen

Got It

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus/Sirius

Word Count: 2859

Summary: Remus pushed down the butterflies in his stomach and accepted the vape when Sirius offered it, inhaling deeply and pointedly not thinking about how Sirius’s lips had been there just moments before. This was the closest Remus would ever get to kissing him. No, he told himself sternly, don’t think about that. It didn’t work. It never did.

Other: texting, fluff fluff fluffity fluff, getting together, written for marauders pride fanzine

in a cottage on a cliffside

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Word Count: 2865

Summary: “Are you cold?” Remus asked. “I’ve got another blanket somewhere…” he trailed off, looking at Sirius expectantly. Sirius shook his head.

“I’m fine.” he smiled again, then took another sip of his tea. He made the same face as before. It was adorable.

“Why are you here?” Remus asked. Sirius blinked at him.

“I wanted to see you.

Other: this was a birthday present for a friend, its fluff and a bit of pining and just generally soft :)) also a get together fic

The Year Remus Lupin Made Friends

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Word Count: 3546

Summary: James was sixteen years old, and it was summertime. Sirius and Pete were staying with him, Pete for a week, Sirius for the whole summer and hopefully every holiday after it too. James wanted to play quidditch, but the risk of being seen by muggles was too high, and his parents wouldn’t allow it. James was also very stubborn. His parents should have known to keep a closer eye on the boys, but some things can’t be helped. Here is what happened:

Other: written for a discord server secret santa. very marauders friendship focused, but also wolfstar at the end :))

In the dark and in the dusty sunlight

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Word Count: 1099

Summary: “I thought we were past such formalities, Lord Lupin.”“Indeed we are, Sirius, but it did feel right in the moment. You know,” Remus gave him an appraising look, and Sirius shivered, “you look rather like a painting, lying there like that.”“My dear Remus, we know very well that I am a work of art.”Remus laughed. “Yes, that has been well established.” He took off his hat and placed it on a table, then crossed over to the windows. “May I?” he asked, gesturing to the curtains.

yall its gay historical pining thats it thats the summary

Other: its just,,,, a period drama. thats it. I wrote a scene from a period drama just for the pining.

Multi Chapter Fics

Love At First Hot Chocolate

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, background James Potter/Lily Evans

Chapter/Word Count: 5 chapters, 5069 words

Summary: 18 year old Remus Lupin works at Starbucks. He hates it. He hates that he has to talk to people and be nice. He hates making coffee (although he doesn't mind the hot chocolate). But one day, Sirius Black walks in. For Remus, it's love at first sight. But does Sirius feel the same way?

Other: Muggle au, sort of a coffeeshop au in that they meet at a coffeeshop but otherwise it’s not it there much, fluff, might have been inspired by a post I saw a few years ago about Remus working at a coffeeshop and always getting Sirius’s name wrong?? But again, I wrote this a few years ago and don’t really remember lol

I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, James Potter/Lily Evans

Chapter/Word count: 2 chapters, 1431 words

Summary: James is getting married, and Sirius worries that he won't get to see his best friend anymore. One night, he vents his feelings to a cute stranger at a pub, who happens to be in a similar situation.

Other: Muggle au, title from the Tom Waits song I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You

If You Want To Buy Me Flowers

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Chapter/Word Count: 3 chapters, 1499 words

Summary: Remus owns a flower shop. Sirius is breaking up with his boyfriend using flower language.

Other: Muggle au, Remus is a florist au, inspired by a post I saw about flower meanings, title from the song Two Princes by Spin Doctor

Don’t Shoot The Messenger

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, James Potter/Lily Evans, Alice (I don’t know her last name)/Frank Longbottom

Chapter/Word Count: 16 chapters, 13,192 words

Summary: Ever since his first year at Hogwarts, Remus Lupin has been exchanging messages with someone on a bathroom stall. Neither of them know who the other one is, and now that they're graduating soon, they want to find out.

Other: Muggle au, modern au, Remus isn't part of the Marauders au, a bit of texting

Love Through The Ages

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, some vague background James Potter/Lily Evans

Chapter/Word Count: 4 chapters, 2213 words

Summary: Remus finds a love letter that Sirius wrote to him two centuries previously and never sent.

Other: They’re vampires au, I guess technically muggle au??, fluff, love letters, confessions, inspired by this post by @kayvsworld

“No, Sirius, tying the stems of flowers together will NOT make a flower crown”

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Chapter/Word Count: 4/4 chapters, 4247 words

Summary: In which Sirius can’t make a flower crown, Remus thinks Sirius might be flirting, and James has no clue what’s going on.

Other: so much fluff, oblivious James, inspired by this art that I love a lot by @girlwithacrown

Hogwarts, 1993

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences (this may change, I don’t have the fic planned out at all, so it could end up with a G rating, but I’ve rated it T just to be safe)

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Chapter/Word Count: 7/? chapters, 7248 words as of October 4 2020

Summary: When Sirius escapes Azkaban and goes to Hogwarts, instead of lurking around as the Grim like a FOOL, he decides to seek help from an old friend.

Other: I don't have any warnings for this one yet, but I’ll put them in if necessary. I’ll be posting the chapters as I write them, and I’ll try to make sure it doesn’t take too long.

the doc was called halloween babeyy

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, James Potter/Lily Evans

Chapter/Word Count: 6 chapters, 1240 words

Summary: a self indulgent halloween fic with pumpkin shenanigans, meet cutes, and texting. 

“They’re battle scars,” Remus repeated. “And you can’t call him just ‘pumpkin’ anymore, his official title is the PumpKing and he requires it to be used at all times.” Remus finished carving out the last scar, and picked up the sharpie to draw the outline of a crown near the top of the pumpkin. One he was satisfied, he picked up his knife and started cutting along the lines.“In that case,” James said, “Mine’s the PumPeasant and he looks like this because of a childhood disease.”

Other: ‘tis all fluff :))

a very (in)effective seduction

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Chapter/Word Count: 10/? chapters, 9557 words

Summary: In which Sirius decides that it's time to seduce Moony. Yes, he has a list

Other: written for girlwithacrown and kidovna’s blissember chirstmas prompts! get together, fluff, etc.

Note: I will finish this eventually, but I was struggling a lot with writing it, so it may take some time. I do have it sort of planned out, and once I have the motivation to write it again it shouldn’t take too long to finish :))

dreaming of you

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, Dorcas Meadowes/Marlene McKinnon

Chapter/Word Count: 6/? chapters, 4932 words

Summary:

 french bitch: I have arrived

french bitch: paris has gained a resident and he is magnificent

sweet sweet moony: paris is usually referred to as she

french bitch: HOW DARE

Jimmy: he does have a point tho

or: Sirius is in france on his study abroad year, remus is pining, and James and Peter are enjoying the chaos

Other: texting, fluff, theres eventually gonna be wolfstar and dorlene and either jily or jegulily I haven’t decided yet

You Hold The Key To My Heart

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, James Potter/Lily Evans/Regulus Black

Chapter/Word Count: 38 chapters, 26 049 words

Summary: Sirius threw himself on his bed, not caring about how he must be wrinkling his clothes. In fact, he relished the idea. At least his parents would have a reason to be angry with him today. He stayed there, thinking about soft curls and a sweet face that he barely caught a glimpse of, until the sun was shining directly through his window and James arrived to help him dress for dinner.

Or, a victorian au in which Remus is a gardener, Sirius is a dramatic rich kid, and they fall in love.

Other: I wrote this for the 2020 wolfstar games. it’s mainly fluff, but I also got to indulge my love of historical things which was amazing :D

Series

Dan’s cute & short wolfstar fics with no plot that make them happy to write :)

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Number of works: 4

Complete: No

Works in the series:

Goodnight Moony - Remus doesn’t want to go to bed. Sirius thinks Remus should go to bed. 201 words.

Snow - It’s literally just Remus and Sirius enjoying the snow, that’s it, that’s the fic, please enjoy. 124 words.

I Just Called To Say I love You - Sirius calls Remus the night before a big exam. 174 words.

Lupin Can’t Sing - Please read the title to the tune of “lupin can’t sing, lupin can’t sing, lupin cannot sing!” from AVPS. Remus is drunk and trying really really hard at karaoke. 409 words.

Ruby Tuesday - Remus and Sirius cuddle and listen to Ruby Tuesday. It's very cute, if I do say so myself. 259 words.

HP Pride Month 2020!!

Rating: General Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, Lily Evans/James Potter

Number of works: 4

Complete: Yes

Other: All the fics in this series were written for @girlwithacrown ‘s HP pride month prompts, and you can find other fics written for those prompts in her collection on AO3!

Works in the series:

Coming Out - Remus and Sirius decide to tell their friends they're dating. 1035 words.

Flag - Sirius and James make unique additions to their pride flags, and at the pride parade they see two other people with matching flags. 1126 words.

Family - Sirius runs away from home. 898 words.

Healing - Remus's dog gets hurt, and the vet is way hotter than Remus was prepared for. Sirius may or may not have Ted from Schitt's Creek vibes. It was mostly unintentional. 1012 words.

Working Title: Summertime

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Ship(s): Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, James Potter/Lily Evans

Number of Works: 2

Complete: No

Works in the series:

Forgiveness & Friendship - The summer after sixth year (and The Prank, you know which one. The one with Snape. And Remus.), Sirius shows up on James's doorstep. 13 chapters, 4437 words

Mischief & Matchmaking - The marauders (+ Lily) are spending a few weeks at James’s house, and oh boy is there a lot of sexual tension there. Peter decides to do something about it. Featuring: shenanigans and three separate tropes cause why not. 17/17 chapters and 6772 words.

dan?? writing angst?? it’s more likely than you’d think

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

Number of Works: 3

Complete: No

Works in the series:

stardust is easily lost - He kisses him because he loves him, because loving Sirius is a habit he’s never been able to break, not in school when he thought loving Sirius would kill him, and not now when he thinks that Sirius might kill them all. It keeps him up at night sometimes.

cascade - Teaching at Hogwarts is equal parts wonderful and miserable. He loves his students, but some days he looks at them and he sees himself, happy and carefree, with his best friends at his side. Those days are the hardest.

the death of a star - And sometimes, Sirius almost seems like his old self again. Sometimes, his mischievous grin that Remus remembers all too well will appear on his face, and he’ll lean over and whisper a snide comment in Remus’s ear, and Remus will have to try to stifle a laugh.

Other: yall this is angst, there is major character death, its A Lot, theyre also down in the Tumblr drabbles section & their titles are all variations of “angst babeyyy”

dan is a) yearning and b) obsessed with dorlene and bookstores

Rating: General Audiences and Teen and Up Audiences

Ship(s): Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes

Number of Works: 3

Complete: No

Works in the series:

1. Walking In a Winter Wonderland – As they skated, Marlene couldn’t take her eyes off of Dorcas. She knew that they were holding a conversation somehow or other––about Dorcas’s job at the bookstore, she was fairly certain––but her brain was on autopilot as she watched the lights dance across Dorcas’s face, lighting up the night like miniature stars.

2. adventures pertaining to love actually (and also shrek) – The woman shook her head solemnly, but a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. “You absolutely cannot.”They grinned at each other for a moment, then the woman’s eyes flicked up to the clock on the wall and she swore. “I’ve got to go. It was nice talking to you! And you’ll have to tell me what you think of that movie if you watch it!”“I will!” Dorcas called after her, and the woman waved as she hurried out the door.Well. She sure hoped that Love Actually was on Netflix. (note: this one is set before the first fic in the series)

3. it can't be hard to find a present right?? (wrong) – “What’cha got there?” Frank flopped into the chair beside Dorcas and took a sip of his coffee, eyeing the mess of yarn on her lap with curiosity.

“It’s not weird to make her a scarf, is it?”

“...to make who a scarf?”

“You know exactly who I’m talking about.”

Other: yeah im just being generally fluffy and self indulgent here, enjoy! :))

Tumblr Drabbles

“It’s three in the morning” - jegulus

“This is the opposite of what I told you to do!” - wolfstar

“Do you have a ride home?” - wolfstar

“Come cuddle” - wolfstar

“I am home” - dorlene

“I’m getting married? Since when were you choosing my future spouse?” - wolfstar

“Another bad date?” - jily

James and Remus being very very chaotic bros

24 hour diner au - wolfstar

they have the same favourite chair - wolfstar

Sirius loses Remus’s present (and James helps him look) – wolfstar

when she wears YOUR flannel shirt - dorlene

when you can’t choose just one snuggly blanket so you wrap up in all of them - the marauders

angst babeyyyyyyyyy - first war wolfstar

2 angst 2 babeyyyyyyyyy - poa wolfstar

angst babeyyyy 3.0 - ootp sorta wolfstar

high school/college minifest day 1: back to school - wolfstar

high school/college minifest day 2: detention - wolfstar

remus has whipped cream on his face and sirius canNOT handle it - wolfstar

hufflepuff remus who makes friends with the marauders - wolfstar

dorcas is hurt and marlene is taking care of her - dorlene

remus is a lil shit (back hugs prompt) - wolfstar

just friends booty shorts - James and sirius

night at the museum au - wolfstar and jily

[nikialexx]

okay so i have read the posts and honestly? i definitely agree with you, and i'm not even going to lie- i'm perfectly guilty of doing the thing you complained about as well re: changing Remus' characterization. I read the books only once maybe 7 years ago? and since then it's just been fanfic/fanon/my own personal thoughts, but somewhere along the line I completely stopped centering canon in the way I view these characters (specifically speaking about the marauders era here cause those are the only ones i tend to care about lol).

So yeah, when I say Remus is my favorite character I definitely feel like I'm coming more from a place of 'my own personal version of Remus is my favorite character' as opposed to canon Remus. And the thing is, canon Remus used to also be my favorite, but like I said- I read the books when I was maybe 13/14 and so I wasn't really doing any deep introspective thinking on them. I was mostly taking everything at face value and so when Remus showed up in PoA as this seemingly sweet, usually mild-mannered guy who was generally a great teacher to his students, I fell for it. And when the text itself didn't explicitly outline his flaws, I saw no reason to do it either. And actually, I kept up this way of thinking until literally only a few months ago. (idk what ur thoughts on this fic are or if you even know much about it so bear with me here lmao) but I read all the young dudes in February and it was the first time I was fully exposed to a version of Remus that wasn't perfect, done in a way that I couldn't ignore, and unlike when I read the hp books way back when, I now had the ability to actually think critically about what I was reading. So atyd Remus kind of opened the gateway for me to think more about canon Remus and his flaws, and I came to the conclusion that- yeah, he definitely wasn't a good person, and he continuously messed up in a lot of big ways that were more often than not unforgiveable. Basically, all the things you outlined are things that I've already thought about.

But like you mentioned, I’m very staunchly in the ‘i’m going to ignore canon to fit my own ideas’ category. And tbh, I don’t think that’s ever going to change much, especially where Remus is concerned 😅. But what I will be changing/being more conscious about is the way Sirius fits into that. And that’s why I love following/engaging with people who have strong positive thoughts about him cause otherwise I would completely fall into the hole of only caring about Remus 😅.

So I really love how you pointed out that in fandom Remus is often used to trash the other characters, especially Sirius. Because it’s so true. I don't remember the exact post it was but what really piqued my interest in your thoughts about Remus was one that said something along the lines of him never being the one who fucks up in a wolfstar fic- it's always Sirius who makes the mistakes and then needs to go grovel for forgiveness while Remus sits on his chair of moral superiority, and you also mentioned this in the posts you linked me to as well. It’s so true!! I practically inhale wolfstar fics for air and yet, off the top of my head, i can’t name five fics where Remus is the bad guy. And I'll admit again that this was not something I ever thought about before, and I always just kind of went along with it. I'm sure I even said/wrote something that further perpetuated it, at some point. So this realization was sort of the catalyst that led to me sending that ask lol because I really don't want to do that anymore when writing wolfstar fics? I wanna be more conscious of the way I write these characters/think about them etc. so yeah, I think I’ll be sticking around on your blog for a while 😂. And yeah, Remus (and Lily) are, I think, two of the most mary-sued characters in the marauders era fandom. Even as a major Remus stan I can see that lol. I feel like a lot of the time, fanon gives him flaws at the surface level but then doesn’t really do anything with those flaws? If that makes sense.

Which is a shame, because I think they both have real potential to be such interesting and complex personalities.

hi so im being very masochistic here but i would really love to know more about your thoughts on remus 👀. is your dislike of him directed more towards canon or fanon or both?

i tried looking through your blog but i only saw posts where you like... slightly approached the topic before backing away completely, and now i'm curious 😅

cause from what i have seen so far, i totally get where you're coming from, especially within what seems to be the popular fanon wolfstar dynamic lately. but you're one of the first people i've seen actually say anything about it and i've enjoyed reading all of your other takes in the short amount of time since i followed you.

so if you were looking for an excuse to rant about this then please, this is me giving you one :)

(remus is my favorite character and i feel like i need to say that in case you take one look at my blog and figure it out yourself cause then this ask is going to seem really weird lmao but i promise i can handle criticism of him)

oooh hello there and welcome to my rant zone blog 💀

i’m gonna be honest, you’re so much braver than i am because i could not even deal with tangential criticism of james or sirius, let alone willingly engage with someone else about it 😭 how do you do it? teach me ur ways, mighty soldier 🙏

as for remus,,,,i have talked about him a couple times but way back so it’s no wonder u haven’t found it. it’s here- 1 // 2 // 3 // 4

warning: it’s not remus friendly, at all. i’ve tried not to like, outright bash but i’d say i ended up doing it in some places anyway.

tl;dr—i used to really like remus and wolfstar a while ago, and even now i grudgingly read it because you cant really avoid it, but the more i’ve thought about it, the more i realised i really dislike him. it started off w fanon remus (because he’s,,,some other creature only) but now i can’t stand canon either.

[ottogatto]

Putting a “Continue reading” line because my post is long.

I don’t know about James being a great guy aside from bullying. First, bullying someone already makes you a bad person. Second, there are few chapters discussing James’ bullying because either it’s brushed off, notably by Dumbledore and the remaining Marauders themselves, or because it’s not the main subject. Harry constantly gets told how his father was a hero. 

The point of Snape’s Worst Memory was to shock Harry and the reader by showing him the reality. From this point onward you can collect each arguments and question them: how the Marauders have walked Remus into Hogsmeade ignoring his concerns, how they got a huge number of detentions, one of which at least was for using illegal spells, how they held a map that allows them to spy/stalk on everybody they want, how they made “breaking rules” and “mischief” and “up to no good” a code of honor, how Lily says that James “hexes everyone in the corridors” because he can and Sirius because it was fun, how he kept bullying Snape, how Remus and Sirius show little to no remorse, how they use victim-blaming, how they twist reality in front of a Harry who wants to be convinced, in the end, that James was a good guy. Because each time he remembers what James really did, his insides feel cold, he feels lost, shocked, and in the Prince’s Tale, he actively refuses to witness the horrible, traumatic scene again. It’s a testament that what the Marauders say might be biased. That, in the end, when Snape told Harry the bad side of James, no matter if Snape is hateful -- he was right.

Of course you can love Marauders. I’m actually okay, with Remus. I think that Sirius has good qualities as well. I dislike James. Because snaters are often marauders-stans, I did develop the ability the spot their flaws.

For instance: he didn’t reject Remus for being a werewolf (I wonder if the Headmaster prevented them from doing that), and they went out of their way to become illegal Animagi to help me. Great. I can also say that using said friend’s condition that renders him mindless for a time to go to Hogsmeade and risk killing/infecting people several times, as well as to risk blowing Lupin’s secret, is not what I call respect. When they deny his protests and keep using him like this... it’s difficult. I do avoid to say this too much, but Remus seemed like a toy for them, even though they were friends.

How Sirius sent Snape to meet a werewolf in the Shack. There are so many wrong things here: he blew up Remus’ secret to their very antagonist; he knew that was dangerous, we’re speaking of Sirius who became an Animagus specifically to hang out with a werewolf; he knew that was dangerous and in fact he counted on it, because when Remus says that “it was a joke”, Sirius says that Snape “deserved it” or that the event “served him right”. Sirius used Remus as a Dark Creature, even though Remus tells them to stop, doesn’t agree with their bullying (although sometimes he follows, as seen in the detention cards), worries about harming someone as a werewolf, hates his lycanthropy, and thus must know very well that Remus wouldn’t ever want to have a student’s blood on his hands. Sirius could have had Remus executed for it. What did Remus think about it? He later convinces himself it was a simple joke.

James saved Snape so you would expect he stopped when he saw the proportions it got? No. He keeps bullying Snape, ensured he’s covered by the Headmaster. He sexually assault him. Most of all, to Lily “what’s he done to you?” he replies “He exists”. And Sirius happily follows, like, as the book says, “a dog that had spotted a prey”.

James saved Snape’s life -- but his problem is that he exists. What could be an interpretation given in the books? That his main motive was not to save Snape’s life because he didn’t wish people dead, no -- because it would mean James expelled, Sirius sent to Azkaban, Remus executed, Dumbledore in difficulty, the Potter’s image ruined, and of course Snape’s best friend Lily rejecting him completely. She didn’t know indeed that Sirius was the one who sent Snape to the Shack to meet a werewolf -- Severus wanted to tell the truth, he couldn’t of course.

As I said, Snape shouldn’t have followed Sirius’ directions. Does this invalidate Sirius’ act? No. It makes Snape’s decision stupid. As well as it underlines why his action was desperate. When you are willing to follow your bullies’ instructions because you want them expelled, that does show how desperate he was. Some would argue that, by choosing to go to the Shrieking Shack, he consciously risked his very life just so he could finally get a proof to show Dumbledore they must be expelled. As if violent, long-term bullying wasn’t a reason in the first place.

That James was willing to ensure Lupin’s life? Good! I would still think that, seeing how wealthy it is, it didn’t cost him that much relatively, but why not? It’s sad because most people wouldn’t be able to do that for their friends, even though it doesn’t mean they are lesser for it.

That James sacrificed himself for Lily and his child? That he fought against Voldemort (since he was educated in the Light side in the first place)? Great as well. The problem is when people invalidate Snape’s sacrificing actions, that not only concerned the one he loved, then the Potters and the Longbottoms, but also extended to the Light side as a whole. They take it for granted. But James trying to fend off Voldemort as he and his family were trapped in the house is also good.

He was a pureblood and didn’t outright discriminate Muggle-Borns -- good (even though I would still argue he didn’t have to put himself in question to change, as he was educated by a Muggle-loving father). But see -- the fact that he was a wealthy, influential pureblood actually renders his actions more serious. He, along with his friends, despised Snape for having greasy hair, which can be explained by how he comes from a poor household.

You know what James could have done? Either ignore Snape or actually befriend him along with Lily. I mean, he’s the Slytherin who was friend with a Muggle-Born -- who, despite the fact Muggles seem to mock him, tries not to be discriminative because of Lily -- a Halfblood who has a Muggle-Born friend even though it could have mean ostracisation and social pressure from the rest of the Slytherins, since being Halfblood is still being tainted, and having a Muggle-Born friend is being a blood traitor! If Snape had started to show discriminative behavior, they could have told him to stop, convinced him to change, or rejected him. 

But no, they bullied him. They had detentions, Remus and Lily to tell them they were wrong -- they kept going. Harry debunks their “we were young and stupid” excuses because bullying is not justifiable, less of all because of that! Because that’s what bullies say in real-life! They said that Snape liked the Dark Arts -- and so what? Knowing Dark Arts (and inventing ways to defend yourself against them) is not the same as using it. There shouldn’t be taboo knowledge. And when Snape used a Dark spell, Sectumsempra -- maybe it was because he was threatened to death in the first place? As they say, Snape inventing Sectumsempta is the equivalent of a victim bringing a penned knife to school to defend themselves. Besides this difference they make in the books between Light and Dark spells is harmful. James used soap to choke Snape -- in real-life you use water and a towel to torture people. James stripped him naked in front of all -- in real-life women are publicly shamed this way. James and Sirius used an illegal spell to make a lambda student’s head grow twice their size, which could have killed them if their neck broke. Sirius sent Snape to a Dark Creature, using victim-blaming later on -- in real-life bullies can send their target in a dangerous place for them to get harmed or worse. The fact they didn’t use Dark spells -- even though Rowling said that every curse, hex and jinx contained Dark Magic in them -- isn’t an excuse to get away with bullying. You want an example? Snape was a dick to Harry, yet he didn’t use Dark Magic for it. Draco bullied Harry -- no Dark Magic. Doesn’t mean that what they do isn’t harmful.

Which brings me to something I said way too often lately: if you were white and went down the street to repeatedly assault a depraved metis/Black person because you assume they’re a terrorist, people would call you racist, and with reason. What do we have here? Pureblood wealthy elitist James who, with the help of another pureblood and two halfbloods, harasses an unpopular halfblood for 7 years, calling them out for liking a subject and belonging to a certain House -- but mostly because, as they say, Snape is ugly and it’s fun to harass him.

On the other hand, we have pureblood James who stalks Lily. Really. Look at this:

Catcalling: “All right, Evans?” said James, and the tone of his voice was suddenly pleasant, deeper, more mature.

More catcalling and sexual harassment:  “Oh, well, he always made a fool of himself whenever Lily was around,” said Sirius, shrugging. ��He couldn’t stop himself showing off whenever he got near her.”

Bordering on obsession: “ “And,” said Harry doggedly, determined to say everything that was on his mind now he was here, “he kept looking over at the girls by the lake, hoping they were watching him!” [where Lily was too]

Blackmail:  “I will if you go out with me, Evans,” said James quickly. “Go on . . . Go out with me, and I’ll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again.”

Threat and victim-blaming:  “Ah, Evans, don’t make me hex you,” said James earnestly.

Manipulation/dishonesty: “ She didn’t know too much about it, to tell you the truth,” said Sirius. “I mean, James didn’t take Snape on dates with her and jinx him in front of her, did he?”

All on a Muggle-Born girl. And if I was to associate purism with racism systematically, this would mean that a rich white man followed by his friends has harassed a Black girl, never listening to her when she screams to stop hexing her best friend, which makes Harry wonder:  She had clearly loathed James and Harry simply could not understand how they could have ended up married. Once or twice he even wondered whether James had forced her into it...

I don’t like his behavior at all. You could also think James wanted to cut Lily and Snape’s friendship because he saw him as a threat to his plan of dating Lily -- he seemed jealous of Snape in other words. The fact that he has two halfblood friends -- one of whom (Peter) still seemed like a lost puppy to McGonagall’s eyes even after all their years together, still was anxious and who doesn’t laugh along with his friends curiously -- doesn’t mean he couldn’t perpetrate discriminative behavior. That’s like saying that if you’re friends with a Black person you can’t be racist, or that if you married a woman you can’t be misogynistic. Of course that’s wrong.

And I already argued about how he “grew up” out of his dubious teenage phase.

You are also mistaken if you think that everyone know James as a horrible man. There are a lot of stans that would picture James as a saint. There are lots of snaters as well.

James and Snape both did wrong and right, and it’s our choice to forgive them or no, to stan them or no. Harry forgave both of them, with the rest of the Marauders. Harry, former Snape-hater, son of James Potter, godson of Sirius Black and friend of Remus Lupin, the Boy-Who-Lived-Twice himself, after 19 years of maturing and reflection, considered Snape the bravest man -- with reasons, part of which I explained above (my favorite brave moment is mainly how he went back to Voldemort in GoF even though he’s pale from fear and Dumbledore stays silent for a long time after his departure to a probable torture session).

Here’s my answer

@whataplottwistyouwere

Okay first off, please, please use paragraphs! Especially if you say things in non-specific order!

Snape was a victim in his younger years. That’s canon. When you are bullied for 7 years, sent to a werewolf for possible infection/murder and are sexually assaulted in front of a school, you are a victim. When you are bullied, you are a victim, since bullying is always one-sided.

Now let’s see your first argument: “Snape wouldn’t miss an opportunity to hex James whenever he got the chance.” This is a quote used by Sirius Black, who is one of the bullies. Which puts his argument in doubt, because it may be biased. And guess what? He’s already proven to be biased. He uses typical bully arguments: “that was just a prank” for instance. Most importantly, he uses victim-blaming: “he deserved it”, “he was jealous”, which proves he never put his actions into question. He says “Nah Lily didn’t hate James” when she clearly hated him, as Harry concluded: “She had clearly loathed James”. When she refuses the date James, for Sirius, it’s “bad luck”. When she tells James why he makes her “SICK”, Sirius says “She thinks you might be a little conceited”, which is typical misogynistic behavior: always dismiss the point of what a girl says, she’s not in her right mind, she’s being hysterical. Not only there is extreme insolence but he also re-phrases her arguments so as for James to think that, no, the problem isn’t that he hexes everybody in the corridors just because he can, that he catcalls her by ruffling his hair arrogantly or shows off with a Snitch – no, the problem is that, “reading between the lines”, he might be a little conceited.

If we had to get back to your initial argument, in how Snape “never missed an opportunity to hex James”, what do you think of this:

Snape was on his feet again, and was stowing the O.W.L. paper in his bag. As he emerged from the shadows of the bushes and set off across the grass, Sirius and James stood up. Lupin and Wormtail remained sitting: Lupin was still staring down at his book, though his eyes were not moving and a faint frown line had appeared between his eyebrows. Wormtail was looking from Sirius and James to Snape with a look of avid anticipation on his face. “All right, Snivellus?” said James loudly. Snape reacted so fast it was as though he had been expecting an attack: Dropping his bag, he plunged his hand inside his robes, and his wand was halfway into the air when James shouted, “Expelliarmus!” Snape’s wand flew twelve feet into the air and fell with a little thud in the grass behind him. Sirius let out a bark of laughter.

Is that what you call Snape “never missing an opportunity to hex James”?

“Yeah,” said Harry, “but he just attacked Snape for no good reason, just because — well, just because you said you were bored.” [Harry]

What about another point of view?

“Your father would never attack me unless it was four on one, what would you call him, I wonder?” [Snape]

Not only do we have the damn untampered objective Pensieve to prove Sirius is wrong, but we have the judgement of someone who knows what’s it like to be a victim and the opinion of the target. The point? That argument about how Snape always started an attack is utterly wrong. Honestly I don’t know how he could even do that when dear Marauders were always 4-on-1.

Now another argument would be that Snape retaliated. That’s not rivalry. That’s a victim defending themselves. If a victim, who can’t be more outnumbered and rendered powerless, tried to retaliate, that’s called self-defense. I dare you to tell me otherwise. If you do, I sincerely hope you don’t ever try to judge women who tried to fight off gang rapists in the street. Just because they are many doesn’t make them any righter – especially when you have the objective evidence of what happened, not denied by the assaulters.

But indeed, Snape uses the words “for enemies”. That is a state of mind adopted by victims who are more or less assaulted. There are “enemies” out there, from whom we have to defend ourselves. That is a testament to the incredibly toxic, destructive atmosphere of Hogwarts generated by the Marauders.

Second: insulting others doesn’t make you less of a victim. That’s common sense. The existence of bully-victim proves that. The fact he called Lily a Mudblood once (yet tried to apologize for it) can’t negate, by the snap of a finger, the evidence of his trauma and childhood abuse. That’s the excuse bullies use the justify their inexcusable behavior against their target. Sorry if you’re not familiar with the mechanisms of bullying.

Now I’m going to ask you a question: if Snape was calling everybody a Mudblood, then why was Lily staying friends with him? Why was prefect Lily staying friends with a purist – who showed canonically that he tried not to use anti-Muggle slurs, like with Petunia on the train, even though it’s common to despise Muggles publicly? If Lily stayed friends with a purist who insulted Muggle-Borns but cut her friendship the moment she was personally attacked then that’s a self-entitled hypocritical move. Seeing how characters can be biased – like when Sirius says that Snape was constantly hanging out with Death Eaters when that seems not really possible because of his friendship with Lily and which is contradicted by the fact that he was alone in Snape’s Worst Memory, hiding behind a bush, not defended by any Slytherin – I’d say that Lily was influenced by her Gryffindor friends, who are already trying to convince Lily to leave Snape behind (which is why she’s trying to defend him).

Your argument that James grew up and matured is also canonically false:

“And stopped hexing people just for the fun of it,” said Lupin. “Even Snape?” said Harry. “Well,” said Lupin slowly, “Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost an opportunity to curse James, so you couldn’t really expect James to take that lying down, could you?” “And my mum was okay with that?” “She didn’t know too much about it, to tell you the truth,” said Sirius. “I mean, James didn’t take Snape on dates with her and jinx him in front of her, did he?”

What’s to be deduced? That the self-righteous, “I have matured” Marauders kept bullying Snape “because he was a special case” – or mostly, as Sirius said, because it was fun to bully people. That dear “I have grown up” James manipulated Lily into thinking he stopped violent harassment (even those who insulted her, as she asked), that he kept bullying Snape until the end of Hogwarts while knowing that Lily wouldn’t approve of it.

Sure, Snape shouldn’t have joined the Death Eaters, right? But I wonder if he had much choice? Do you get your throat sliced up when Voldemort and your Slytherin dormmates ask you to join them and you have nobody to defend you if you refuse aka defy Voldemort? When you see that the Light side is composed of pureblood people with political influence who gets away with threatening your life and making school a living hell, students either too coward to defend you or enjoying your torment, professors close their eyes on it, and that Dumbledore himself silenced you after a werewolf attempted murder and protected your very own bullies? That you have been groomed to think that in the end, power is the end of the word, that being pureblood does give you privileges; that Voldemort will give you respect, protection, a job, makes exceptions to admit you as a half-blood and Lily as a Muggle-Born (he asked her to join him), and seems to be winning the war anyway? You know how vulnerable people are targeted by extremists (like our dear terf Rowling)?

But you’re right. Snape is a grey character after all, he has to have done bad things in the first place to justify to concept of deserving redemption. Since Lily left him alone, he seems to have abandoned her side and joined the Death Eaters. You just forget one thing: after 2 years of spying, he changed sides and conviction. He could have just given to Dumbledore the information that he had to protect Lily, her family and the Longbottoms who were also targeted – but no, despite everything, he stayed loyal until his very death, forbidding people to insult Muggle-Borns when he could.

I don’t see how James also matured for himself.

Voldmort was already trying to kill the Potters since they’ve defied him at least three times. He targeted them specifically, as the Prophecy said. Snape reported the prophecy – and you seem to be forgetting that he changed sides to protect them and served the Light side, which means he fought against Voldemort from this point onward. Is that convenient for you to forget, huh?

Now about the “killing a baby” thing. If you were on the Light side, and you heard about how the son of a Death Eater would be able to kill Dumbledore/Harry and lead the Death Eaters to victory, would you wash your hands just because you don’t want to kill? Second: the Prophecy didn’t say that “the one born as the 7th month dies” would be a baby. For all we know it could have been an adult born from elderly persons who defied Voldemort thrice, an adult who was born on the end of July that could have come back to defeat him. As Dumbledore said, Snape couldn’t have known it would be Harry or Neville. And again you forget how he protected families, including their children – including a whole school of children for years. But indeed, in the eventuality that he was ready to let a child die, that makes his changement all the more strong. The key word is that Snape “was” okay to let a child die. Later, when he learns that Dumbledore was okay as well to let Harry die for the greater good (you see, both sides use the same weapons), he is “horrified” and protests how the Headmaster “raised him like a pig for slaughter”. When he learns that a child has been captured by the Basilisk, he grips the chair in distress, who reveals to be first-year Ginny, and gets all the more angry when he sees Lockhart acting like an incompetent clown. Later he says that he tried to save as much people as he can. But isn’t that soothing for our entitled hate against Snape to bring forth the past Snape only?

Of course he didn’t give a fuck to the reason he was fucked up! Of course I wouldn’t give a shit if my bully died! About Voldemort killing a child, I don’t know – do you have evidence he was okay with that? Because what we know is that he can’t ask Voldemort to spare Harry, that would be suicide. He can’t ask Voldemort to spare James, that would be suicide as well as people know that Snape loathes his guts and joined Voldemort partly because he hated him. That would put his loyalty into question. Why do you think Dumbledore doesn’t seem to have asked Snape to ask Voldemort to spare James as well? It’s already extremely risky and brave to ask Voldemort to spare a Muggle-Born woman who’s defied him thrice and who’s the mother of the Prophecy-Voldemort-slayer.

You know what he did three lines later? Just after he’s being called for it? He asked Dumbledore to save the whole family, and gives himself entirely for the cause: “Anything,” he says. He could have given up. He didn’t.

If people tell you not to forget that Snape had a terrible childhood that’s because there’s a reason? You literally claimed that Snape wasn’t a victim. There’s no higher bullshit.

Snape wasn’t obsessed with Lily – okay you want proof? Do you have a scene where Snape blackmails, catcalls, stalks Lily like James did to her, because he felt self-entitled to Lily? No. Do you have a scene where Snape asks her to become his lover? No – for all we know he only wanted to stay her friend, his love could have been platonic – like Sirius’s love for James, or Albus’ love for Ariana. Do you have one little sentence from the remaining Marauders protesting how Snape tried to stalk Lily? Not even that! So again – you made it up for your convenience!

Not every single freaking teacher would become Dumbledore’s double agent against Voldemort himself. Not every teacher would be able to endure the pressure and the loneliness it implies. You have Slughorn who canonically was unable to save Ron and almost let him to die because he was incompetent. And even if they did? Those are reasons to respect him. You know how many would have died or suffered dementia from the Carrows’ torture? Harry, Draco, Katie Bell, Hermione, Sirius, Lupin, Dumbledore – Neville, Ginny, Luna – the whole school in 7th year. Yeah that’s right – praise the Marauders for fighting for those they love but when Snape saves everybody down to those he despises you take it for granted. Bad faith. What he did for the war deserves a medal.

He bullied Harry and Neville, but does he abuse his power against everybody who’s not in Slytherin? I don’t know – Gryffindors don’t like him but you don’t know for Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs, who – by the way – seem to despise Slytherins for being Slytherins, thus rendering them biased as well. What he does is mostly in his right – he does what McGonagall would do for instance, though he doesn’t punish students with actual death threats. He manages Potions which is a class reputed for being dangerous – Neville could have melted his face off several times, like in his first class, but Snape tries (and fails) to teach him to be serious in class.

Neville is never said to have witnessed his parents getting tortured, and even if he did? Ah yes, Snape was his Boggarts, well, let’s make that clear:

Snape was Neville‟s Boggart when he should fear Bellatrix. There‟s a simple explanation: he never met Bellatrix, he never met a murderer before. He‟s a 13 year-old boy and we don‟t know how much he‟s heard about Bellatrix. If Boggarts show the deepest, truest fear, why isn‟t everybody‟s Boggart a Death Eater? How do you explain Lupin‟s Boggart wasn‟t Greyback? This is like saying “Harry is scared of Dementors even though his parents were brutally murdered and he was almost killed himself.” Lupin actually feared Harry‟s Boggart would be Voldemort. Also, did you forget that another of Neville‟s fear – and a legitimate one at that, is his own grandmother that lives miles away for months! Actually, his grandmother and his great uncle nearly killed him to force his magic out and see if he wasn‟t a squib. She basically put pressure on him by stating that he must be a great wizard or else his parents would have sacrificed their lives for nothing and he would be a shame to his family. Snape pointing out Neville‟s failures redirects to that fear that his own relatives implemented in him. If you should accuse someone of Neville‟s shy and insecure personality, it should be his relatives most of all! So that means a Boggart doesn‟t always display your ultimate fear but what you fear the most at the instant. It shows a fear that is immediate, known and met quite regularly, or the meaning behind it: like Lupin not fearing the moon in itself but the transformation into a werewolf. What Neville feared at the moment was Snape standing there barely two minutes ago, right after a Potions lesson. Plus notice how Harry and Molly Weasley can‟t banish their Boggarts… It‟s because their fear was deep, it was a true fear. Neville literally ridiculed Snape on the first try of his life! Not only that, he defeated it a second time without breaking a sweat, actually killing off the Boggart. Harry couldn‟t do that for a long time. Another element: the point of the scene here is to put contrast between the Boggarts of the class (including Neville‟s) and Harry‟s Boggart. Sure, Boggarts seem to show people‟s phobias and some gross things, but Harry fears fear himself, according to Lupin, and that is allowed because he‟s been through much more so far: nearly killed by Quirell and a Basilisk, had his parents murdered, mistreated by the Dursleys… It‟s a contrast between childish fears and adult fears. In the writing of the chapter, Snape is put among childish fears. To put it simply: I‟d fear more a mosquito flying inside my ear than cars that could kill me or make me a cripple. I fear more the dark corridor at home when I go to the bathroom than a potential rapist following me in the dark outside. In the end: the fact Neville„s parents were tortured by Bellatrix doesn‟t mean his Boggart is going to be her, because he never met her and she wasn‟t the immediate threat. On the other hand: Snape being Neville‟s Boggart doesn‟t mean he‟s traumatized the boy, because he would have been unable to defeat the Boggart otherwise. So I get it if it‟s wrong that Neville feared his teacher, but you can‟t say he was irredeemably traumatized by a character we know is extra strict. If you studied Neville enough, you‟d see his roommates aren‟t the sweetest toward him too, and that Snape bullying Neville is usually followed by the Slytherins in general.

Does Neville have a panic attack seeing his Boggarts? No, he seems sheepish. Is Neville frozen in fear later? No – he’s so brave he accompanies Harry in the Ministry in OotP and actively revolts against Snape in 7th year. The fact Neville fears Snape, whom he just met twice before the class, is bad because you shouldn’t fear your teacher, but as we see, he’s not actually pissing himself for it. Quit dramatizing.

About Hermione’s teeth: yes that was mean. Wasn’t like she wasn’t already ashamed of them before that though. Wasn’t like she was scarred for life for his comment. Wasn’t like he could show much empathy when he had the children of Death Eaters behind him to judge his actions and report them to their parents. And really, if you’re going to say that Snape isn’t a (spy) hero for shaming her teeth, then nobody’s a hero in HP, not even Hermione who mutilated Marietta’s face for life gratuitously and without remorse.

And really, about Remus? Okay, here we go.

Snape has kept his promise of not revealing Lupin‟s condition for years, since the Werewolf Prank. After his meltdown in front of the Minister of Magic, Dumbledore tells him: “Unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione are able to be in two places at once, I‟m afraid I don‟t see any point in troubling them further.” Snape, as a teacher, has likely been informed of Hermione‟s possession of a Time-Turner to attend to more classes. Snape is a clever man, so when Dumbledore tells him, despite being out of his mind, isn‟t it likely that he understood what Dumbledore implied? That he understood it was Dumbledore‟s plan to save Black? So of course Snape would be seething even more, but his loyalty to Dumbledore has withstood the test of time – he‟s one of the Headmaster‟s most loyal man. Snape is known for doing things even if he loathes himself (and Dumbledore) for it. After this, Snape leaved fuming toward his dungeons, and Dumbledore departs shortly after; it is also likely they had a discussion. The main idea is: what if Dumbledore had given permission to Snape to reveal Lupin was a Werewolf? Playing on Snape‟s bad reputation, showing that he isn‟t as loyal as we might think to Dumbledore, and that he knows to use stigmatisation weaknesses to punish the DADA professors, antagonizing Harry even further – all of this allows to picture Lupin as a more innocent man that if he had to be fired by Dumbledore for endangering his students multiple times based on personal beliefs that Black couldn‟t be a murderer, disobeying and failing Dumbledore‟s trust since he was a teenager, and forgetting the complicated Wolfsbane Potion that Snape brewed specifically for him every month to allow Lupin a job no one else would offer. Instead of blaming Snape, we see Dumbledore rather disappointed with an ashamed Lupin avoiding the Headmaster‟s eyes, leaving as quick as possible – soon after confessing to Harry. He never told Dumbledore that his friends had been freeing a Werewolf out of the Shack to walk to Hogsmeade – and as they‟ll admit, sometimes, they had been close to being discovered, because guess what, a Werewolf isn‟t completely controllable and can hunt for a human. Putting several lives in danger, great.

Here’s the extract:

“What sort of animal —?” Harry began, but Hermione cut him off. “That was still really dangerous! Running around in the dark with a werewolf! What if you’d given the others the slip, and bitten somebody?” “A thought that still haunts me,” said Lupin heavily. “And there were near misses, many of them. We laughed about them afterwards. We were young, thoughtless — carried away with our own cleverness. “I sometimes felt guilty about betraying Dumbledore’s trust, of course… he had admitted me to Hogwarts when no other headmaster would have done so, and he had no idea I was breaking the rules he had set down for my own and others’ safety. He never knew I had led three fellow students into becoming Animagi illegally. But I always managed to forget my guilty feelings every time we sat down to plan our next month’s adventure. And I haven’t changed…” Lupin’s face had hardened, and there was self-disgust in his voice. “All this year, I have been battling with myself, wondering whether I should tell Dumbledore that Sirius was an Animagus. But I didn’t do it. Why? Because I was too cowardly. It would have meant admitting that I’d betrayed his trust while I was at school, admitting that I’d led others along with me… and Dumbledore’s trust has meant everything to me. He let me into Hogwarts as a boy, and he gave me a job when I have been shunned all my adult life, unable to find paid work because of what I am. And so I convinced myself that Sirius was getting into the school using dark arts he learned from Voldemort, that being an Animagus had nothing to do with it… so, in a way, Snape’s been right about me all along.”

Besides, people will always accuse Snape – but who‟s the guy letting Lupin go out without salary or protection or shelf or anything? Dumbledore.

There. Satisfied? People love Snape as a morally-grey character – don’t you ever assume we forget what he’s done when you do just that.