#and James and Harry moments. pure chefs kiss

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Why is everyone freaking out about Lily on your page? You're allowed to like and dislike any character on the planet ? Just like everyone else. Also about Lily:

We barely get know her, besides being a mother that died for her child ,any somewhat decent parent would and should do that l, we don't really know her as a person besides being friends with Snape till SWM and then marrying James. I know the fanon version of every Marauder is really chefs kiss and easy to fall in love, but we forgot how far away that is from canon sometimes .

I wished the writers of these fanon characters and fanfics would start writing their own stories because honey you're doing a better job than the actual author, start using your talent. You made me fall in love and cry about characters that are mentioned twice in a whole series.

Lily is like one of the untouchables in the fandom, or at least one of those characters you can never criticize. A lot of Snape fans support her because she’s a fundamental part of his story, Marauders fans adore her because she was James’s girlfriend, and then you have the Golden Trio fans who love her for being Harry’s mother. Everyone adores her for a different reason, but they all have one thing in common: she’s the complement to a male character they actually love. They don’t love Lily for who she is, but for what she represents to each of the men she influenced—and that is misogyny.

We don’t know much about Lily, but what little I do know, I don’t like. When I read the fifth book and the whole SWM thing happened, I wasn’t even a Snape fan, but she still came across as a complete idiot to me, half-smiling at James while he ran around stripping some guy half-naked. And then, when we see The Prince’s Tale and she refuses to forgive him?? I was a teenager at the time, and I still wasn’t a Snape fan, but I thought that was just pure asshole behavior?? Like, you’ve known this guy your whole life, you know he’s been bullied since day one, you know he comes from a shitty home, and you know he said that in a moment of absolute stress—yet you refuse to even listen to him?? Fuck off. Seriously, she seemed incredibly cynical to me.

Like, you can’t call out a guy for hanging out with future DEs but then turn around and marry a literal bully you’ve seen being a piece of garbage your entire life and still act like you have some kind of moral high ground. And what also really annoyed me was how Rowling tried to sell her as a moral example—like… a person like that is just a jerk. I’ve already said I view friendship very differently, so as far as I’m concerned, Lily can stay six feet under with her trash husband—they were two peas in a pod. And I know this is an unpopular opinion even in the Snape fandom, but I don’t care—I cannot stand her. I’ve made an effort to analyze her more seriously, but if you ask for my subjective opinion? She was a total asshole, and that’s why she fit so well with another total asshole.

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for the snape asks: 1, 12 and 14 please :)

Your favorite thing about Snape?

He gives no fucks and yet also cares so SO deeply.

He doesn't care what people think of him. He has a wonderful tenacity that comes from standing up for himself and not being intimidated by how others perceive him. We see it on the Hogwarts Express when he meets James and Sirius, we see it in the way he fights back again and again when they bully him, and we see it in him as a teacher. He doesn't care if people don't like him, because he's certain in his perceptions and perspectives. He doesn't care what the students think of him, or what Fudge thinks of him as he shows him his Dark Mark, or even what someone like Umbridge thinks. He can't help but be snarky because however full of self-loathing he might be, he also knows that he's the smartest person in the room and ran out of patience for everyone else's bullshit a long time ago.

At the same time, he is so deeply invested in serving Lily's memory and protecting her son, and as he grows as a person he comes to care so much for saving any lives he can, that his dedication ultimately costs him his life. As he works towards that moment, knowing it's on the horizon, his lack of needing to be liked by anyone serves him every step of the way. Chef's kiss.

12. While on the topic of Movie Snape, what’s your favorite Snape-shot from the films?

Brilliant. Best moment in the entire film series, without a doubt. Not one word of dialogue, yet it says so much. This is why Rickman was right for the role, in my opinion. He was incredible with physical work, and Snape, being a terse, serious, closed off character needed to be portrayed by an actor who knew how to speak through their eyes and movements.

The way he lowers his wand to signal he means no harm to Harry and isn't threatening him. The way his eyes convey a trust in Harry while also asking him to trust him in kind. The certainty in his hand as he puts his finger to his lips to convey that he knows something Harry doesn't. The look on his whole face, that says, we're not teacher and student right now, we're both here to serve the same greater purpose and we both know what's at stake. It starts with these these two characters who have a history of not trusting or respecting each other raising their wands to each other, and ends with him having Harry's trust and being in control, all in the span of three seconds. It shifts the dynamic between these two characters entirely. It’s the most connected and intimate these two are in the entire film series.

Snape's motivation is that he knows the moment he's dreaded has come, that he has to kill Dumbledore now, and he also knows that he needs to keep Harry quiet and below the action of the scene to protect him. Even though seconds later he will kill Dumbledore, in this moment Rickman is able sell the audience on the idea that this character has Harry's trust, serving both the goal of the moment between these two characters, and of the story itself because having that trust gives him something to subvert and raise the stakes in the drama of the moment that follows immediately after. There's an incredible amount of storytelling packed into three seconds here, and it's all character work. It's not the dialogue, and it's not the direction, it's pure physicality and decades of acting training and movement work culminating in a moment that looks deceptively simple and is beautifully, profoundly effective.

14. Favorite Snape line/moment? (books or movies!)

I love the moments where he lets the control over his facade slip for a moment and gives away who he really is, like when he's in the middle of an Occlumency lesson with Harry and hears a scream upstairs and immediately runs off without locking his office or telling Harry to get out. Or like when he runs upstairs from the dungeons in his night shirt in the middle of the night because he hears the opened TriWizard egg screeching and doesn't know what it is, just that it sounds like wailing. He forgets his own vulnerability, running out in a nightshirt that would, no doubt, make him look silly in front of colleagues or rogue students, and definitely doesn't help when he's confronted with Moody who already has him on the back foot Not to mention that the castle is described as cold and the man doesn't even think to throw on a dressing gown, he's just off like a bullet because someone might be in danger. I love seeing this character who's controlled, meticulous, who thinks first and then speaks, who observes more than he reveals, who's set up as a foil and is villainized by the protagonist of the narrative, drop everything because he thinks someone is threatened. Love a good chink in the armor.

I also love his first scene in the PS film. Dramatic. Ruthless. Establishes exactly who this guy is and his zero tolerance policy on bullshit. Irrevocably changes the vibe in the room when he walks in. Threateningly charismatic. Love to see it.