#also fuck snape

[aezran]

Always

[superfallingstars]

Snapetober Day 6: Roots

[lilithofpenandbook]

Seriously how can M*r*uders stans like random Slytherins (who tf are Evan Rosier, Pandora (is that Luna's mum and why tf is she Evan Rosier's twin in half of these), and I don't even want to discuss Regulus) and make them Actually Misunderstood Good People Who Were Forced Down That Path when at least one of them *coughreguluscough* was obsessed with Voldemort

And then turn around and make Snape an awful person?

[mitsuki91]

I just read an anti-comment about "girls just want to fix Snape" and let me tell you all:

We don't want to fix him.

We want to fix the world around him so he can have a good and well deserved fuck :v

[mrflay]

I'm not much of a shipper, BUT.

[moonlightdancer26]

Things in the HP fandom that ✨just don’t make sense✨

Ship wars

Loving Draco but hating on Ron

Calling Snape abusive while glossing over the fact that the series takes place in an old-fashioned magic school 30 years ago.

Thinking it’s valid that just because you hate a character you can disregard their trauma

Wolfstar shippers who bash Tonks for no good reason (you can obviously not ship Remadora and ship Wolfstar, but why hate on her when she genuinely did nothing bad?)

Insisting that George should’ve died instead of Fred (that’s so disturbing??? wtf is wrong with y’all?)

Excusing literally everything the Marauders did by saying “they’re just kids” and not acknowledging that Snape was the same age

Hating on Cho, Fleur, Tonks, and Lavender (hm I wonder what they all have in common)

Hating Percy when he has an extremely realistic and understandable story and felt genuinely overlooked by his family (which he was).

Calling 9 year old Snape a creepy stalker

Acting like Hagrid was a perfect angel just because he was kind to Harry

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

Severus’ animagus is a cat. Don’t. Try. To. Change. My. Mind.

Snucius with a bonus point to Sev for looking like a loaf of bread.

[galaxostars]

Do you guys remember the first time you read/watched Harry Potter and thought Snape was responsible for everything only to be hit in the stomach when you found out alongside the characters it was Quirrell all along?

Do you remember reading about Sirius Black escaping jail and wanting to murder Harry and do you remember being ready to throw hands at him? And then do you remember that sinking feeling when you realized he’d been wrongfully imprisoned for twelve years and was painted as the guilty one when it was Peter all along?

Do you remember hearing about the death eater Regulus Black, following in Voldemorts’ footsteps only to be hit with the crushing truth later, that he’d betrayed him and died doing so and no one knew about it and you had, yet again, judged him too harshly?

Do you remember hating Draco and progressively coming to understand the circumstances that led him to that?

Do you remember loving Dumbledore and realizing suddenly how badly he wronged Harry?

Do you ever think about those moments, and how we all judged those characters and fell into the easy trap? Time and time again? How easy it was to gulp down one version and not realize how biased it was?

I feel like if there’s one thing those books taught me it was to never get along with one version of a story. You can’t hear one side and admit it’s the final truth. You can’t judge someone through one lens and not admit it’s skewed. You can’t erase circumstances. You can’t shut out the other side of a story because one is sufficient for you.

If you want to crucify someone for something they did, remember all those times you were ready to crucify Snape, Sirius, Regulus, Draco and so on.

I’m not against holding people accountable for their actions, but I don’t want to get that sinking feeling of guilt that I had with characters on real human beings. And it is inhuman to hold one thing against someone’s head forever—especially when you don’t know the whole story.

We all make mistakes, we all fuck up, and we also, all have our own truth. And we’re also all capable of empathy towards others. 🖤

God knows I hate jkr with a passion but fuck if I love the message that was spread through those arcs.

[batwingsrosa]

Was outing Remus Lupin as a werewolf a dick move?

Yes.

Was ist also completely justified?

YES.

[atlasdoe]

One day i'm going to go into detail about the power group that was Septima Vector, Aurora Sinistra, Florence Greengrass, Emma Vanity & Bertha Jorkins

They were two years above the Marauders and were those older popular girls who literally everyone either wanted to be or be with.

They were the biggest gossips, the biggest flirts, the biggest jocks, the biggest party animals they were everything and they would kill for one another

Until their seventh year when suddenly they were all at each others throats. Arguments in the Slytherin and Ravenclaw common room became a norm and every secret that they told each other was now public news.

Nobody knew what really happened between them, all that anyone else knew was that none of them had spoken to each other since their last massive fight during their graduation. They all went from best friends to never contacting each other for 18 years.

And the thing that brought them together again? The disappearance of Bertha after sending a letter to each of the other girls asking them why they weren't friends anymore.

[bakedbakermom]

you know what fuck it i'm reclaiming "always" from jkr. it's mulder and scully's now. they had it first anyway.

[redr0sewrites]

i would talk about harry potter on here but no one agrees with my headcanons i fear

[seriousbrat]

i hate the 'homophobic snape' thing a lot in general, i mean it's worth noting basically his only friend through most of the books is also the only gay character lol.

but the truth about snape is he doesn't give a shit about stuff like that. I don't think he would have rly known about it if (big if) any of the marauders were gay-- like being 100% realistic I don't think as a teenager in the 70s he'd be above using homophobia as an insult if it was someone he hated. but also if it was someone he was friends with (mulciber) he would be accepting/not care. similar to the werewolf thing, i don't doubt he was frequently extremely vicious and offensive to remus about it but if it had been someone he liked (so lily or mulciber) who was a werewolf he would have been pretty accepting of it imo. if it was a random student he wouldn't have cared.

that being said i often dislike homophobia plots in fic in general because they always seem so gratuitous and over the top. it's obviously using snape as a mouthpiece for the most extreme vile (and out of character) views so that the marauders are justified in bullying him. like i don't think he was woke and politically correct (clearly) but be fr he doesn't care that much. and it's not that i don't think people should explore homophobia in their own writing, obviously, explore away, this is just why i personally dislike the way it's handled a lot of the time. it just so often feels contrived and insensitive to me, kind of misery porn-ish if that makes any sense. like to what extent is it necessary i guess

[lilithofpenandbook]

Sirius Black is proof that love doesn't make someone selfless, Severus Snape is proof that hate doesn't make someone selfish

[severus-snaps]

Snapetober 2024 | Cosy

For @redabeline who writes a lot of chubby Snape, for @dreamshopesfantasies who once asked for a cuddly Snape and I think this version is better than the first one I did, and for my boyfriend, who is the cosiest.

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

"James Potter was a bully"

Snape was an abuser 💀

At least James fucked with people his own age. He wasn't a 30 year old man bullying 11 year old children. He wasn't a teacher with power over the students he tormented. He had zero power to expel or academically punish anyone. At least the people James messed with had the chance to fuck with him back. During Snape's worst memory, Snape literally casts a spell that cuts James across the cheek. He wasn't some helpless victim.

And before anyone comes for me, I'm NOT saying it's okay to bully people or anything like that. But if you look at a 15 year old boy bullying another 15 year old boy and look at a literal teacher who bullies kids 20 years younger than him and decide that the boy is an irredeemable asshole while the teacher isn't, you're insane.