#pro Snape

[goodd4yss]

protective snape is canon 🙏🙏

I've noticed something about Snape—one of his biggest red lines, the thing that truly pushes him to his limit, is when someone's life is in danger.

In those moments, he becomes the most vulnerable version of himself. He forgets everything—every grudge, every precaution, every defense mechanism—and his only focus is getting people out of harm's way, no matter the cost.

So vulnerable that hearing about Ginny Weasley's kidnapping forces him to lean on the back of a chair. So vulnerable and unguarded that while saving Harry from Quirrell’s curse, an eleven-year-old sets him on fire. So vulnerable that, in his attempt to manage the chaos of the Shrieking Shack—with children, a werewolf, and a supposed murderer—he’s disarmed by 13-year-olds. He's so reckless that he makes an Unbreakable Vow for Draco. So reckless that he chases a werewolf, without Wolfsbane, under the full moon near sunset. So reckless that he ventures into the Forbidden Forest to find lost children. So reckless that he roams the hallways in the middle of the night, in his nightgown, chasing the sound of a scream. So reckless that, as a Death Eater, he risks everything to warn the leader of the opposite side about Voldemort's plans to kill the Potters—and is willing to give anything to save them. He's so ungrudging that he carefully carries an unconscious Sirius Black. So ungrudging that when Black is captured, he checks on him immediately and alerts the Order of the Phoenix. So ungrudging that he risks his cover to save Lupin.

And I think these moments say so much about his humanity—things the books never fully explain.

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marauders fans hate and mischaracterize Snape so much because very story needs a villain and they don’t want to accept that the marauders are those villains

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE FROM THE BACK!

[lilithofpenandbook]

HE JUST FUCKING 'NOPED' OUT I'M CRYING

[nakaster]

God theyre so gay smhhhhh

[vilvianthedepressed]

Ah yes. The fans insisted that they grew up.

When I ask where is the canon apologise, they stfu.

Because there was NONE.

“The marauders grew up but Snape never did”

Brother Sirius was making his unconscious body hit things and still called him by the same mean nickname he did as kids as an adult, Remus literally gaslit him and harry about the bullying they put Snape through and abandoned his pregnant fucking wife, Peter literally sold all his friends out for self interest, and James kept jinxing snape behind lily’s back and then died 3 years later . Is the growing up in the room with us?

[i-crave-the-forbidden]

Bros he just cant catch a break, can he?

Audio from @goldiet2951 on yt and the Leon: the professional movie

[sakura-hitomi]

TikTok context is 1st and 2nd picture and as we all read. The comments are disappointing one after the other. I'm sev reaction btw.

Let's focus on the last pic: weobyss.

Their point: @weobyss: They literally parallel each other in the sense of being complicit. Both of them had friends who treated others badly but they did nothing about it. Snape was hanging out with DEATH EATERS

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They made multiple points here:

- Remus and Snape are paralel of another (meaning they are alike - which is not true at all)

- Both groups aka Slytherin and marauders treated each other badly (true but fairly unjust)

- And Remus nor Snape did a thing about that Slytherin vs marauders/ gryffindors "rivalry"

- Snape was hanging out with DE. (implying something here)

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Let me break down how unfair your 4 arguments are with your: @weobyss: Pls reread my point, I’m comparing Remus to Severus, not Severus to James. James had no excuse. But neither did the Slytherins. Slytherin vs Gryffindor rivalry is old and peer pressured on both sides

Ps: I do apologize for assuming you meant James.

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Argument 1: Remus and Snape are paralel of another (meaning they are alike - which is not true at all)

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- it isn't true and extremely unfair to compare Remus who was PART of that friendship and Snape who was basically third wheeling his house. Remus was a friend, Snape wasn't. Lily implied it but friends keep in touch or talk about nice things. But even during school and after school, none of that friendship blossoms. Snape simply felt safest within Slytherin. While marauders aka gryffindors made his life a living hell, other houses laughed along or ignored him. Slytherins didn't do any of those. Or at most, inflict pain on Snape.

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Argument 2: Both groups aka Slytherin and marauders treated each other badly (true but fairly unjust)

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True, can't argue against that but gryffindors discriminate against Slytherins. James butts in on a conversation of Snape with lily, trampling all over Snape's opinion about slytherin. Hagrid proceeds to tell a child of 11 "there was not a single Slytherin that didn't turn evil". Albus pulling gryffindors ahead of other houses, especially slytherins.

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Ron talking about how awful Slytherin is. Meanwhile there isn't a single Slytherin that spoke ill about Gryffindor. If Slytherin vs Gryffindor was a thing and they'd use both dark spells, Slytherin would be apprehended earlier than their lion counterpart. In other words the scale of justice doesn't work for those two houses. Because that scale always leans in favor towards Gryffindors.

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Argument 3: And Remus nor Snape did a thing about that Slytherin vs marauders/ gryffindors "rivalry"

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I mean, of course not. What pureblood who thinks all high and mighty of themselves would listen to a poor half muggle? Half of what they are supposed to hate. Remus had a task as a prefect. Snape didn't even have that job as a prefect. It was Remus his responsibility meanhwil Snape held no responsibility over how to command his house mates to act. You're basically comparing a cop who is spineless to a mere passerby and blame the passerby for not helping the spineless cop in taking down a thief.

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This whole argument is basically unjust. Snape was in no position to talk to his housemates (not friends) about their behavior. Meanwhile Remus had multiple positions. He was their friend, and he was a prefect, with a mission of Dumbledore himself that he gave Remus that task to keep his friends in line. Which Remus botched, because not only couldn't he keep his friends in line. He helped James keep the bullying under cover. What bullying you may ask? Lily began dating James after he "changed" but James clearly didn't. Remus like Sirius made sure lily never found out about it.

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Argument 4: - Snape was hanging out with DE. (implying something here)

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Again, Snape felt safest in that house. It isn't his fault for ending up in ytherin and majority of those students happened to be racists. They use peer pressure on each other and teachers that don't even bat an eye to them, wouldn't help the helpless and vulnerable students like Snape. I mean, Snape wasn't even a DE fanatic before Hogwarts. It isn't a coincidence that Snape became one during Hogwarts within Slytherin house. He also only called other mudbloods surrounded by his fellow students. When he's alone, he pretty much minds his own business.

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In other words, all your reasons are simply wrongly placed. Remus was worse than Snape, so was James, and Sirius. Snape's hand was forced by cards stacked against him, poverty, abuse, neglect, neglect teachers, racist housemates, peer pressure, lacking friend, bullying. Meanwhile the gryffindors (remus too) had no reasons to act the way they did.

Remus was not at all equal to Snape in any way.

[hprecfest]

HP Rec Fest 2024 - Roundup

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the 2024 Rec Fest! The kindness and love for fanworks and creators has been a healing balm against this rough world.

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All posts are cross-tagged for character and ship. While we would like to provide a full index of these, it would be a long process due to the extensive number of these. Here is a much-abridged character and ship tag index, ordered alphabetically by first name.

Characters

Albus Dumbledore Draco Malfoy Ginny Weasley Harry Potter Hermione Granger James Potter James Sirius Potter Lily Evans Potter Minerva McGonagall Pansy Parkinson Regulus Black Remus Lupin Ron Weasley Severus Snape Sirius Black Teddy Lupin Tom Riddle

Ships

Draco/Harry Harry/Severus Harry/Tom Riddle Hermione/Draco James/Lily No ship (gen fic) Regulus/James Sirius/Remus

[spinedotlazuli1120]

An apology won't erase years of torment, let alone a murder attempt

JAMES POTTER'S REDEMPTION???

Scrolling through Tiktok and the algorithm decided to give me a video about "the prank". And in the comment section, I see Marauders fan trying to defend the Marauders. It was okay, until I see them say

"James saving Snape's life is his redemption?"

I mean, EXCUSE ME???

You say 'saving his life', as in James Potter cleaning up his own mess. Said mess being HIM and his gang baited Severus Snape into the same room with a literal werewolf that could kill him???

And by realising how stupid it is, by pulling Snape out of the situation that HE created, he REDEEMED for pushing Snape into it in the first place?

Oh wow? Is that what redemption means now?

And in a way, it's not similar to "Saving his life" as Dumbledore nobly put it. James Potter knew how dangerous Remus Lupin was, and yes, even if he saved Snape in the end, he still owed Snape more than an apology, for all the things he had done.

Furthermore, they also said "Remus was too scare to mention it" or "He was traumatise too", "He regretted it later", etc.

Okay, let just assume that he remembered, let assume that at the time, he was too scare of being expell to face Snape.

How about in Harry's third year? How about that?

Did he, canonically, apologise? Or did he just take Snape's potion, say a thank, and then act all friendly?

There is just so many things wrong, and the ways they were defended ridiculously underwhelmed the trauma and the risk they had put a schoolmate through, as well as how light they treated it later.

And don't even get me started on that blasted fanfiction that they all prayed to everynight. It's blasphemed.

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The post: You can’t say Lily Evans was a feminist because a person with feminist awareness wouldn’t marry a privileged cishet man who abused his power by being a bully right in front of her.

The Snaters: LILY WAS FREE TO CHOOSE JAMES, DID YOU EXPECT HER TO CHOOSE SNAPE?

Me: At what point did I say she had to choose someone? At what point did I say I ship her with Snape? At what point does questioning a character’s political mindset turn into reducing her to an object of desire between two men?

Of course Lily was free to marry whoever she wanted; I have no problem with that. My issue is with people trying to portray her as some kind of feminist icon of the 70s when there is nothing in the canon to suggest that, and when that theory is contradicted by her life choices. A feminist woman from the 70s wouldn’t marry the class’s rich bully, wouldn’t end up with a hyper-toxic white guy who spent his time abusing classmates, wouldn’t end up with a spoiled and obnoxious brat who publicly stripped a working-class classmate against his will. And this has nothing to do with whether Lily should have ended up with someone else. Lily should end up with whoever she wants—no one is debating that. What’s being debated is the attempt to portray her as a feminist icon when she simply wasn’t.

Lily was a white girl from the 70s who was completely alienated from the patriarchal structures of her time, only cared about social issues that directly affected her, and chose a traditional life that was entirely in line with the patriarchal expectations for women of her era. She was not a revolutionary, she was not a feminist—she was a teenage mother who married her high school boyfriend, who happened to be a rich jerk. And saying that does not imply in any way that she should have chosen another man. The fact that Snaters are so obsessed with this just proves that all their so-called progressive rhetoric online is pure performance, because anyone with even a minimal understanding of the subject would never assume that criticizing a female character’s political stance means she has to pick one man over another.

Honestly, what a drag. But what’s even more exhausting is how all these people attack not only by twisting your words and making completely irrelevant statements but also by trying to argue their points with nothing but fan theories and assumptions based on their own biases or whatever fandom content they consume as if it were gospel. And the moment you counter them with canon-based arguments, suddenly, they decide the conversation is over and that they’re going to "leave it at that." Because, of course, the moment canon gets thrown in their faces, it turns out they have no ground to stand on, and their arguments are invalid because they’re built on nothing but the pillars of their imagination—so they have to retreat to avoid embarrassing themselves further.

I’ve said it over and over: I don’t care if people come to throw hate my way, and I don’t care if people come to debate. But if they do, at least have the guts and the dignity not to run away with their tails between their legs when I completely dismantle their cheap hate-filled discourse—because, honestly, it’s as embarrassing as it is disappointing.

[fafodill]

Was fooling around with a bot who described Snape as having a mustache and now I'm cackling

[boomiyah]

RIP charity burbage HCs

RIP charity burbage, you are so sabrina carpenter coded

RIP charity burbage, you are also very glinda coded (+severus as elphaba because why not)

RIP charity burbage, you would've owned multiple lipstick tasers

RIP charity burbage, your favourite movie would've been mamma mia

RIP charity burbage, you would've loved dragging people by the hair in a physical fight

RIP charity burbage, you would've been able to absolutely throttle the guys in the snape gang without breaking a sweat

RIP charity burbage, bruce calling you cabbage is canon

RIP charity burbage and severus snape, my fav pair of polar opposite besties

RIP charity burbage, the badass barbie of hufflepuff

[ianwaite]

For those like me:

Published: 2024-05-05 Updated:2025-02-01 Words: 407,209 Chapters: 63/?

Severus Snape survived the war. He’s not thrilled about it.

Life after Voldemort was supposed to be quiet, preferably nonexistent, and certainly not filled with other people’s problems. Instead, Severus finds himself in a most unfortunate predicament—saddled with an unwanted role as a healer for someone who, much like himself, would rather not be here at all.

His patient is fragile, infuriatingly difficult to keep alive, and far too comfortable with her own mortality. And yet, against all logic, she’s also someone he doesn’t entirely hate. Which is concerning. Very concerning.

Trapped in a house where the furniture has too much personality, the house-elves are far too enthusiastic, and the family is distressingly nosy, Severus must endure the absolute worst fate imaginable—human connection. And if that wasn’t enough, it turns out that fate has cursed him with something even more insufferable: a very long, painful (frozen) slow-burn.

Sarcasm is exchanged like currency, reluctant care turns into something neither of them dare name, and Severus is faced with the most horrifying realization of all—perhaps life isn’t quite done with him yet.

Relationship: Severus Snape/Original Female Character(s) (not my ship)

Rating: Not Rated (I need to know)

I reblog it to keep it on my blog ... one day I am a brave man reading such ships! I hope till then I have forgotten my experience with such ships...

More Severus!

If you'd interested, I'll happily advertise my fic! : https://archiveofourown.org/works/55707229/chapters/141413347 🖤🖤🖤

[chanchansthings]

I should write my essays yet I'm drawing Sev instead

[dastardly-lemondrops]

sometimes I think after all the shit snape has been through between being a spy and having a job he fucking hated for 20 years, after everything, he'd love to be a fucking housewife. Fucking love to think about housewife snape hrgn