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The people from "Snape bullied his students" evolved into "Snape psychologically tortured his students" 🤣🤣 Makes me want to laugh. What will be the next stage? "Snape used legilimency to kill and resurrect the minds of students over and over again until they were terrified"?

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wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

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Hello everyone. I bring to you: Snapeweek 2025!

Feel free to join in and post on any and all platforms using #SnapeWeek !

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Severus Snape is both a victim and a perpetrator at separate points in his life. In addition to his father and the Marauders, Snape is as much a victim of Dumbledore and Voldemort as Harry is - his entire life is controlled by these two powerful men. Severus sacrifices his soul to what he believes in and opts into a life of servitude as repentance.

Severus Snape also is cruel. He lashes out. He perpetuates a vicious cycle of bullying by taking it out on his students. Severus Snape is not a kind man or a morally pure man, but he is a man who strives toward good and tries to save everyone he can.

I'm just need to shout into the void real quick.

Snape being morally grey and being a victim are not diametrically opposed ideas. There's no such thing as an 'innocent' victim because that implies there's also a 'guilty' victim, which is absolute nonsense, there are only victims. And there are only victims because there's nothing that can

Make a person guilty (or deserving) of their own victimization.

It's ideas like this that make victim blaming so easy to do. If you can find a way to villainize a victim you will do it, especially if you don't like the person. "He deserved it" is just another way of saying, "she was asking for it."

Having said that, Snape is in fact a victim. The Mauraders did bully him, and I say bully because we see definitive proof of their behavior towards Snape. Meanwhile the only 'retalitory' behavior we see from Snape regarding the Mauraders during their school days, are sourced from the biased words of Sirius and Remus when they are talking to the young son of their dead friend, meaning that they'd more than likely want to preserve Harry's imagine of James since Harry will never get to meet him. Friendly reminder: Pensive Memories are objective and it's very easy to tell when they've been tampered with, we know this thanks to Slugghorns memory with Tom.

You can hate Snape all you want, but you can't deny the canon of the story, and the canon is Snape was a victim of multiple forms of violence, from his father and from the Mauraders. It's part of the story and it gives us context on what was motivating Snape. It doesn't excuse his actions, but

His victim hood also isn't spontaneously nullified because he joined the Death Eaters. He's a morally grey character who doesn't just decide to be a DE on a whim.

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“The intensity of his gaze made her blush.” — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter: The Prince’s Tale, Lily and Snape looking at one another. Nothing further, your honor.

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I wanna try a thing. For every post I make that highlights how victimized and hard done by Snape was, I'll make one about how he was also very resilient and had agency and initiative oozing out of every pore.

Imagine a boy with no friends. From the wrong part of town. Whose family appears to have a reputation. Who has very little in common with anyone because in a couple of years, he'll be off to Hogwarts. It could have been so easy to daydream until his real life could begin. But then he thought he saw a witch. Lest he accidentally expose his secret to a muggle, he made sure. And that witch was from the better part. And yet he wanted to know her, wanted her to know him, and he put himself on the line to make that happen, risking rejection and mockery. By that age he probably knew very well it wouldn't necessarily work out in his favor. And when that risk materialized... He tried again!

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my new years resolution is actually to think about fictional characters more and put them in more situations and not think about the real world because that's scary and stuff

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i love when snape fandom is like, the marauders attacked snape four against one/two against one! like, of course they did. what, were they supposed to fight the whole death eater gang at once? you’re SUPPOSED to outnumber your enemy!

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severus snape they could never make me hate u

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Severus Snape kept Remus Lupin’s secret for 18 long years

Severus Snape kept Remus Lupin’s secret throughout his years at Hogwarts, even while enduring relentless bullying from the Marauders. He kept it when Lily Evans, the one person he cared for most, accused him of being ungrateful and selfish. He kept it after he graduated. He kept it even as he joined the Death Eaters. He kept it when he returned to Hogwarts as a teacher. He kept it when Lupin was appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor—a position Snape had long coveted. Even after Lupin, as a teacher, by suggesting an idea to Neville Longbottom, caused a Boggart to transform into a parody of Snape in women’s clothing—making him the laughingstock of the school—Snape still kept his secret. He kept it when Sirius Black, believed to be a murderer, nearly broke into Hogwarts, even though Snape suspected Lupin might have been helping him. He kept it when he believed Lupin had given the Marauder’s Map to Harry Potter and was holding secret meetings with him under suspicious circumstances.

But there came a moment when Snape could no longer protect Lupin’s secret. That moment came when Snape realized Lupin had betrayed Dumbledore’s trust:

Lupin knew that Sirius Black was an Animagus. He knew about the hidden passages in and out of Hogwarts. He knew Harry was aware of them too. But Lupin said nothing. His silence put the school in danger, nearly leading to three students being mauled by a werewolf. Worst of all, it allowed Sirius Black—who Snape believed to be one of Voldemort’s most dangerous allies—to escape. A man Snape thought responsible for Lily’s death, the murder of twelve Muggles, and an attempt on Harry Potter’s life.

In that moment, Snape realized the cost of keeping the secret had finally outweighed the price of revealing it.

Yes, Snape hated Lupin. He despised the Marauders and carried the scars of their cruelty for years. But when the moment came, His priority was not vengeance, but the safety of others. In the end, Snape was a man who understood the weight of responsibility—no matter the cost to himself.

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oh by the way while my snape post is doing well i do not think he’s conventionally attractive at all there’s just something about that weird looking big nosed greasy haired man god he’s so appealing

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A Completely Honest Review Rant about the Unofficial Advanced Potion-Making

Oh boy ... Where to start? I don't mean to be rude, especially considering this book is not officially endorsed by the HP franchise (author? what author?), but if you are prone to going mad at inaccuracies I recommend you approach this book with a quill ready to make corrections.

As an avid Half Blood Prince enjoyer, I am still happy to have purchased this book simply for the serotonin I get from looking at it, but (as the enthusiast I am) I groaned upon turning the page to the prologue. Immediately, in the same handwriting as young Snape's, next to Slughorn's name is written: "horcruxes?" It could be rationalized that this was meant to be Harry's writing, however there is no notable change in handwriting between Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. As we all know, horcruxes are not something Snape would be aware of in his youth or, from what can be gleaned from canon, ever.

Further, the book includes knowledge of Nicholas Flamel's death and the destruction of the Philosopher's Stone - something that would not occur for at the very least over a decade after the book would have been published for Snape's use in his sixth year.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, but the inclusion of Wolfsbane in the book (and its mention several times) is inaccurate to the timeline of the HP books. (I will not expound upon this point for fear I'm misremembering.)

Finally, "Sectumsempra" or any other spells Snape invented are not present at all in the book despite their explicit mention in canon.

Overall, I would still recommend buying this book if you are an avid fan since it does include interesting information that may or may not be canon-compliant, and the cover looks spectacular, in my opinion. I apologize for my rant, I had no one else to tell it to.

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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The siren call of making a funny joke about The Character™ vs the fear that people will see your silly little joke as the be-all end-all of your understanding of The Character™ and assume you don't understand them on a deep level (and be mean about it)

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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.