#severus Snape

[antarescamusxo]

Now, what Sirius did was wrong, but low-key Snape was so dumb for going 😭😭 I'm sorry the more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense 😭😭 Wasn’t this kid bullying you?😭😭 Why are you following what he says?😭😭 Especially when you already suspected that the secret you would be facing was a werewolf 😭😭 Snape after "the prank" might have gone through two existentialist crisis, the first being, holy shit, he almost killed me! The second being WHY IN THE FUCKING HELL DID I LISTEN TO SIRIUS BLACK?????????????😭😭😭

[antebellum13]

“And My Soul, Dumbledore?” — The Case for Snape Never Killing Before That Night

We often talk about The Prince’s Tale as the final reveal of Severus Snape’s true loyalties—but there’s a moment in that chapter that gets overshadowed by the big memories, the Patronus, the “Always.” And yet it might be the most damning and revealing line in the entire series.

It’s this:

“And my soul, Dumbledore? Mine?”

Let’s sit with that for a second.

Snape is being asked to kill. Not for power, not for punishment, not for vengeance—but out of mercy. Dumbledore is dying. The end is already written. All he’s asking for is dignity.

And Snape balks.

He doesn’t recoil at the strategic risk. He doesn’t flinch at the morality of sparing Dumbledore’s life.

He flinches because of the possibility that this will damage his soul.

This isn’t the voice of a killer.

That one line unearths so much about who Snape is beneath the persona—beneath the spy, the double agent, the snarling teacher. It reveals that he has not taken a life before.

Because if he had? This would be a non-issue. He wouldn’t need to ask. The damage would already be done. The soul, already torn.

But instead, he stops and asks:

Will this be the thing that breaks me?

That’s the cry of a man standing on a line he hasn’t crossed.

And the fact that he still believes in the soul at all is deeply significant.

Let’s compare him to real killers in the series:

• Voldemort doesn’t flinch at murder—he does it for power, to fracture his soul on purpose.

• Bellatrix (and many other Death Eaters) kills for sport.

But Draco, when faced with the same choice, cannot do it. Harry, even in war, casts Expelliarmus.

And Snape—the supposed villain of the early books, the morally ambiguous double agent—asks if his soul will survive it.

He’s not worried about punishment. He’s worried about what killing will do to him.

That is not the thought process of a man with blood on his hands.

Dumbledore’s response is everything:

“You alone know whether it will harm your soul.”

Not “Your soul’s already lost.”

Not “It won’t make a difference.”

Not even “You have no choice.”

Dumbledore leaves it to him.

That means he believes Snape still has something to lose.

He wouldn’t ask this of someone whose soul was already fractured. He asks it of Snape because he knows this will be his first and only kill.

The implication is enormous.

This is a man who has done horrific things. He’s served Voldemort. He’s used dark magic. He’s endangered children.

But he has never killed. Not once.

And when he finally does, it’s to:

• Honour a dying man’s wishes.

• Spare a child’s soul (Draco’s).

• End suffering, not prolong it.

And even then, it tears at him.

So what does that make him?

A villain? An anti-hero? A deeply damaged man trying to atone? Maybe all of the above.

But not a murderer.

Not by choice. Not by pattern.

Just once. And it nearly breaks him.

[catitoart]

"I've always wanted to see an interaction between Hagrid and Snape at school. So I made this drawing.

I need to pay this month’s bills, so I’m opening commissions 2/5

Please Dm

[sylas-the1st]

Canon.

Sirius getting in trouble and McGonagall not calling his parents because Sirius was disowned, but also not calling the Potters because they had to take care of talking to James.

So, she decides to bring Regulus to her office and just let him yell at Sirius.

[myobscureimaginarium]

A Ray of Sunshine

[sherbet-powder]

Little prince

[fafodill]

I have a funny headcanon about Snape's role within the DE circle.

Like, yeah he became a spy because he was really good at being stealthy and unremarkable but before that of course Lucius was talking to everybody about his potions skills. The guy was a malnourished greasy 17yo but also a fricking genius.

And ofc he made poisons or other stuff but my hc is that one of the thing he made consistently for the Dark Lord™ was... handcream.

Because of course old Tomy liked to look good and smell good and he had a handcream he used for years then it was discontinued and he was so pissed off (and everyone heard about it) and Severus made him a new one - even better - with the same fragrance and this is how he got noticed by the DL himself.

And when the Dark Lord™ came back... he made it again (and had to adjust the formula because his skin was different now) and it just cracks me up to imagine Dumbledore with a grave voice being like "So, Severus my boy, any news from your last meeting with Voldemort?" and Severus to be like "Lavender is now offensive to him, I need to find an adequate replacement." and Dumbledore being like "...what."

[fafodill]

#I'mregulus

Severus: When are you going to pay me the royalties?

[maxdibert]

Yeah, I mean, Severus called Lily a slur in the middle of an emotional breakdown after being terribly humiliated in public, but honestly, I think he’s a much better person than me. Because if I had seen my friend half-smiling at my bully while he exposed me half-naked in public… I wouldn’t have called my friend a slur—I would’ve smashed her head against the ground, babes.

[flymetosnarryland]

I keep trying this new colouring technique. It's weird tho. I really like how it works, but... when I'm looking at it, I got the same feeling like when I'm wearing make-up and looking at myself in the mirror. "It's not me", heh (so I'm not using it). I need something more... rough, I guess (๑•́ ₃ •̀๑)

[therusholmepoet]

No caption just Snape pointing

[mikailakay]

No way 🤣

them in 1980 (albus thought he was a demon and sev was in the market for a father figure)

[cetussart]

"I will be the hands that embrace you,

I will be the hands that gather you,

The hands that hold you.

I will be the hands that love,

The hands that accept.

I will be the hands that

Do not betray you"

©Shahnaz Sain

[fafodill]

Inspired by @captbexx's Snape design that I saw this week on insta and absolutely LOVED so I got inspired

[leaelakey]

And if I said that Jegulus is just a palatable version of Jeverus...

obnoxiously loud marauders fanon is turning me into a snape stan actually and i’m a snape-bullied-harry-for-no-reason truther. what do you mean regulus is the poor badass morally grey meow meow with an horrible family life who got pushed into voldemort’s violent little cult through societal pressure but was secretly a good guy all along? hello? that’s literally severus snape put some respect on our dungeon bat’s name