#and snape of course

[lilithofpenandbook]

Something about Snape, 31-38, with pure black hair, not a single sign of white, despite that being the age most people start going grey

Something about how he had the full dark hair of youth and died like that

Something about how he never truly grew up like he should have

Something about how he was always stuck there in the past, stuck as that Snape boy from Spinner's End, stuck as Snivellus the boy who the Marauders hated for just existing

Something about how he died there in the same place he nearly died as a boy

Something about how he died in that place, bloodied and wounded, raven black hair, no difference between him and his boyhood self

Something about how that black hair was perhaps a sign that he was still living in the past, that a piece of him was eternally frozen at 21, at 16, at 15, he died a man yet he wasn't one, he wasn't a boy but not quite a man

Something about how his portrait among all the other heads of Hogwarts is the only one whose hair is fully dark, whose face isn't lined with age.

Next to them, he is a boy. Perhaps he always was.

[whatapunk]

Honestly nothing in any movie affects me quite like Severus Snape’s hesitation to duel Minerva McGonagall in The Deathly Hallows

[slydeliss]

Severus Lives, but not freely, many want his head, Voldemort's followers must say. The need of a bodyguard at every public event is humiliating but becomes a habit, Harry volunteers and becomes his most paranoic protector, the need to protect the one who cared for him so much is unbearable.

Harry means well but he really needs to stop death-staring to the Waiters...

[maxdibert]

Imagine a guy spends 7 years of your life physically and mentally abusing you, making your life hell along with his 3 friends because he doesn’t have the guts to do it alone, and one day you find him dead, and people expect you to feel sorry for him?? Like, what world do these people live in? They should be thankful I didn’t kill him myself lol.

[iamnmbr3]

I love that Draco never told anyone about Harry being in remedial potions.

Maybe he was imagining some bad fanfic scenario where Harry ended up running to him like 'oh draco please don't tell anyone about the fact that im in remedial potions.' and draco could be like 'ha ha now i bet you're sorry you didn't take my hand' and harry would be like 'oh yes i am so sorry. won't you please keep my secret tho? and maybe you could help me get better at potions since you're so brilliant? i was wrong all along about you' and then they'd end up becoming friends

[dastardly-lemondrops]

Honestly irritated at how many people brought up Snape, and even went so far as to claim liking Snape was a 'red flag for you as a person', and one person saying they were a 'reformed snape liker'. Liking a character says nothing about your moral character. The level of immaturity at thinking that a person who likes a character you don't like is morally inferior to you. Also just irritated that this kind of thing is being encouraged in a fanfiction group. This kind of thing is 100% destructive to fandom.

[lilmarshie]

Cuddles | S. Snape x Professor! Reader

- Severus loves spending time with you after his classes, cuddling you, it helps him to relieve any stress that he may be feeling.

- You are a Professor at Hogwarts and had met Snape during your second year of teaching.

- He is enamored by your presence and enthusiasm for your students.

- You are the light and life of every room that you may enter.

- Severus’ cuddles are gentle, his hands smooth, and his body a soothing sensation against yours.

- His body was significantly cooler than yours but he had a ton of blankets that were thrown haphazardly on his bed.

- The fire roared in the teacher dormitories giving you both an extra bit of warmth.

- Snape whispered sweet words into your ear as you snuggled up together.

[hbpseverus]

okay, one thing about james. he is the only marauder (casting peter aside) who i just can't forgive. i like remus, and while i dislike sirius i can at least appreciate his strenghts and his good sides. but i can't forgive james for the swm incident and many people seem to have trouble understanding why this isolated event ruins his entire character. because i am willing to believe that he worked on himself and became a better person after hogwarts (mainly because i don't think lily would have ever married him otherwise). i completely believe that even at hogwarts, he was considered a likable person by many. that he was fun to be around and friendly to most. that he wasn't all bad or only a bully.

but here's the thing. there are things you only have to do once to be irredeemable, and what happened in snapes worst memory, to me, is one of those things. i do not care if james was an amazing person outside of this one incident. and i understand that everyone has different morals and that other people can forgive james - or not forgive severus. unlike james, severus got a chance to redeem himself and he took it. he was still a bully, but here's where my personal perception comes into play again. i had many awful teachers who were bullies and i know how much it sucks (in my country, teachers are insanely hard to get fired, meaning they truly can get away with almost anything including obvious discrimination). i can't justify his mistreatment of students, but to me his good sides outweigh it, so i can forgive and like him despite this flaw while others can not which is valid too. but sexual harassment is not something i can forgive no matter the circumstances or the person who did it. i would feel the same way if the roles had been reversed and james had been the victim - i wouldn't be a snape stan. ultimately we all have our own individual morals that play into how we perceive these complex characters.

tldr: it doesn't matter to me if james was a balanced character and a good person outside of swm because committing sexual harassment 'just once' is still one time too many and makes anyone permanently irredeemable in my eyes

[sneverussape]

some 2024 olympics!au sketches because it’s been such a good season and im already getting sad at the thought that it’s about to end soon 🥲

slovenian olympic swimmer!snape is based off of @divinityin-motion’s most excellent snack fic, Psychological Warfare, which is one of my absolute favorites. iirc his event was either free or breast in that fic but i keep forcing him to do fly whenever i draw him because that was MY event. 😂

[theatreslave]

I fully need you all to realize

in another universe, each and every one of us, is making Severus Snape stutter and blush.

[zhivchik]

[lilithofpenandbook]

HARRY JAMES POTTER HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW IF HE MADE THAT RULE UP 😭😭😭

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Eileen is unhinged

*Voldemort goes to Spinners End* Eileen, opens the door a bit: Hello? Voldemort: Is Severus there? I need to talk to him. Eileen, with a plan to scam her rich family forming in her mind: No, Severus is dead. Severus, very much alive next to Eileen, mouthing under a silecing charm: MOM, WHAT THE FUCK-

[alwayshinny]

James Sirius and Albus Severus Potter

[maxdibert]

I’ll never understand why the ship of Sirius and Remus is so popular when Sirius’s world literally revolved around James. I mean, if Sirius liked men, he was in love with James and probably wasn’t even fully aware of it. In fact, I’ve always seen quite a parallel between Sirius/James and Snape/Lily because in both cases, the first ones seemed to feel (platonically or romantically, however you want to see it) much more for the others. I’ve always seen it as pretty clear, but maybe it’s just me, idk.

[iamnmbr3]

I think Snape's death scene is super interesting because Snape is the only person we ever see Voldemort apologize to. Yes, he’s not sorry enough to not kill him but he does express regret which is a unique moment. He definitely respects Snape a lot more than he does most of his followers and maybe even likes him to the extent that he likes anyone by that point in his life.

They do after all have a lot in common - both from poor, low class backgrounds, both halfbloods, both with a bad relationship with their Muggle fathers, both outsiders to the privilege and influence wielded by the old wealthy pureblood families like the Blacks and the Malfoys, both prodigiously talented etc. It's just interesting.