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Could Snape really be called a racist when he himself had a Muggle father? If anything, he’s a biracial person with huge prejudices against Muggles precisely because his Muggle side was always the one that abused him at home. Then he goes to school, and some rich kids with economic and social capital decide to bully him, and I quote, “just because he exists.” In the middle of all that, and being a half-blood in a house infested with supremacists, he’s told that if he joins them, he’ll have protection and power, something he’s always lacked. I think calling him a racist, instead of admitting (as Rowling herself says) that his reasons for getting involved with the Death Eaters were about feeling protected and accepted, oversimplifies the character. And sorry, but reacting badly to your supposed best friend when you’re being humiliated, suffocated, and sexually assaulted in front of the entire school, and that same supposed best friend is giving your abuser heart eyes and practically smiling at him, doesn’t make you a racist either.

On another note, I’d love to know when exactly Sirius matures? Is it when he keeps making super racist comments about his elf? Or when he treats him like a rights-less slave? Does he also mature when he behaves like a teenager and reacts like a kid? In fact, I seem to recall it’s canon that Sirius never actually matured because his cognitive development was seriously stunted by going to Azkaban and basically losing all of his twenties. He also doesn’t show signs of remorse, considering that in PoA, he drags Snape around without caring that his head is constantly hitting the ground, and later in OoP, he still calls him by his old bully nickname. He justifies his actions to Harry at every turn, and only when Harry doesn’t seem to agree does he admit that maybe almost getting one of his classmates killed and nearly setting up one of his supposed friends to be labelled a murderer wasn’t as great as it seemed.

As for James, the only evidence we have of his “maturity” is the unreliable word of his best friends, who see him as some kind of saint, the same friends who constantly justify having been assholes. The same friends who also admit that James never really stopped bullying, he just hid it better from his girlfriend. So, I’m not sure where the evidence is.

What is clear, though, is that they spent seven years torturing a much poorer, weaker, and more vulnerable kid because James’s masculinity was threatened by the girl he liked spending time with that kid, and Sirius just found it fun to torture people, while Remus and Peter didn’t have the will or the guts to stop their friends. Maybe if that hadn’t been the case, Snape wouldn’t have felt so alone and unprotected, and wouldn’t have hidden behind the supremacists in his house who promised him safety, power, and protection if he joined the Dark Lord. Just saying.

Can we talk about snape? Like he's a horrible person in the way that hes racist even though his best friend was a muggle born, and he abuse her son as well, he was a traitor to pretty much everyone, and even though he died a "hero" he was just shit overall

Though I think there are a lot of reasons as to why he's like this. He was bullied for being weird for most of his childhood, and when he got somewhere that he though he would be safe, he ended up getting bullied for yet again being "weird" and yeah while he was a grease ball, in the end, loosing his best friend and having everyone hate him was his own fault, because eventually James & Sirius grew the fuck up from being bullies, and stopped. The realized that they were wrong and that they fucked up, (Sirius says he regrets it in the books) but thats the difference, is that they grow, and change, but Snape never seems to really grow from his actions, he stays with the dark lord and keeps working as a "spy" for Dumbledore, but when Dumbledore is out of the way (died,) he takes over the school and makes it a living hell for all the students there!!

so no, Snape was never redeemed, he was a bad person, all of it is not entirely his fault, but even when given the chance to grow, he didnt.