#wolfstarsucks

[act-more-like-a-dog-sirius]

The world deserves more of your rants

Thank you. Here’s another hot fucking take regarding a marauders fandom favorite: The Prank

buckle up kiddos this is a long one

Snape already suspected (AND WAS TELLING OTHER STUDENTS HIS SUSPICIONS) that Remus was a werewolf when Sirius told him how to get past the Willow

everyone just loves to turn this into a whole wolfstar angst fest of betrayal and tragedy and Snape threatening Sirius or Remus or whatever.

i literally am so fucking sick of that.

i cannot fucking stand it.

ugghhh.

why you gotta go and reduce complex/interesting storylines and concepts and just boil them down to gay-wolfstar-angst-poor-hurt-remus-this-is-just-a-glitch-in-the-love-story-oh-no-he-betrayed-the-person-he-loved-most-boyfriend-drama/angst????  and

can y’all not read??!?!?

third book: remus fucking SAYS, while explaining the incident, that snape ‘was very interested in where i went every month. he’d seen me crossing the grounds with madame pomfrey one night.’ seventh book. the pensive. Snape to Lily: ‘there’s something odd about that Lupin kid…where he disappears to every month. ON THE FULL MOON.’ Lily to Snape: ‘I KNOW YOUR THEORY and I’m not interested’…. 

y’all......... 

snape fucking knew exactly what he was getting into. even if it hadn’t been confirmed, he went, intentionally, to catch remus, to get proof that he was right and remus was a werewolf, AS HE ALREADY SUSPECTED. snape, for all his numerous flaws, is not stupid. he went in after remus, knowingly on a full moon, with the active suspicion that remus was, and would be turning into a werewolf. i don’t understand why everyone wants to ignore the fact that snape knew what he was getting into/doing. and snape did it anyways. snape ALREADY suspected remus was a werewolf. He was already telling his friends his suspicions. stop ignoring his culpability. 

and also. just. there is so much to explore with this (admittedly super fucking trope of all marauders fanfic), and i genuinely cannot comprehend why everyone wants to take the same least nuanced, least interesting route that has been done 100000 times before. look, you can still have your wolfstar (if you want) and actually explore ‘the prank’ with nuance. but i just am so fundamentally opposed to like 98% of all depictions of The Prank I’ve read. also. i think the whole fandom trope reasoning behind why sirius did it, his motives, what happened, and all that are just…most takes are just flat. wrong. boring. whatever. 

(disclaimer) now this is speculation, but i doubt sirius was trying to kill snape. i doubt snape was ‘threatening him’ (or remus). i doubt sirius even really thought it through. i suspect it was much more along the lines of snape trying to get answers, asking what they’re doing in there, why remus goes there, every month, on the full moon. saying he saw reums with pomfrey. he knows he’s doing something. and saying he’ll catch them and get them expelled. and sirius basically being like, alright, if you’re so curious and you think you know so much, here’s how you can follow him. i also think that wizards, and wizard kids in particular, have a crazy distorted sense of danger of what can actually kill you (there was a meta on tumblr about this somewhere). sirius, by this point, was an animagus and hanging out with a werewolf every month. this makes him lose perspective on how dangerous all of this shit is. yes it’s still super shitty and fucked up and absolutely a betrayal and wrong on sooo many levels. i have way more to say on this but i’m wasting so much time already putting the pro in procrastination. 

point is: i’m fucking tired of the classic ‘the prank’ trope.

[act-more-like-a-dog-sirius]

and I love being salty with u too bestie 💜

i love being salty with u @act-more-like-a-dog-sirius