Alickat

[ollywander]

Reading Harry Potter after becoming a Snape enthusiast is so weird...I keep waiting to see all the "unforgivable" instances of his character and start to hate him, but like....literally Ron and McGonagall cause more emotional harm to more characters 😭

Im almost done with Prisoner of Azkaban, and like... Snape doesn't really DO anything, and when he does, the narrative always makes a point of having him be right lol

Not only emotional harm, but physical harm, as well.

Snape: For detention, go clean out some bedpans in the hospital wing.

McGonagall: For detention, go into the Forbidden Forest chock full of fire breathing, venom shitting, child munching beasts and possibly Voldemort.

It’s not even a contest.

And he is always right! That crashout he had at the end of The Prisoner of Azkaban? He was completely correct! Dumbledore was lying through his teeth, and Snape was not having it.

And that time he threw Harry out of his office? Harry went behind his back to look in the pensieve and invaded his privacy (despite his heroic intentions).

And his hatred for James? I would also continue to despise someone who bullied me for seven years and sexually assaulted me and humiliated me, revealing my genitalia, in front of the entire school.

[saentdrgnskr]

severus snape is better than everyone actually

[faecaptainofdreams]

Not to mention after the trauma it was dismissed and he was brushed off and treated terribly. He might have healed from some of that if ANYONE had given even a mild damn, but no one did. Dumbledore continued to cement his pain with dismissals, gaslighting, telling lies to people and deliberately misinterpreting/vilifying him and his actions to others. And that was someone Snape looked up to, too. Just horrible all around. There's virtually nothing he does in the books that's that bad.

[momoyv]

[sal-absinthii]

Alan Rickman is a fine actor, but he only makes sense as Snape if you’re casting Snape the way Harry sees him: as an imposing mature character any stern authority figure would seem like to an 11yo

Canon Snape is a perpetually-exhausted 30-something with “grad student living on caffeine, stale noodles, and two hours of sleep in a broom closet” energy who has to pretend to be imposing so these little preteen shits don’t commit grievous lab safety violations and his insane bosses don’t leave him out to die

[charleston-yappa]

They r very cute to draw heh

Here's a lil bonus bc this scene from the show is a core memory of mine

[pokeypro]

The les mis obsession is so bad guys 😭 i even started reading the brick and why did victor Hugo think it was a great time to go on a tangent about the battle of Waterloo right when we’re having the most tense plot points 💀💀💀

[piierogis]

hayden tee is still on my mind I GUESS. post seine edition

[ernest-pamphilow]

said Snape, a triumphant smile flickering across his gaunt face.  stood Severus Snape. He was a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy, shoulder-length black hair

>> NEITHER. end of the discussion

[groovypalacehorselover]

The way way Maurader fans condemn Snape, it almost makes you think that he publicly SAed someone, or maybe tried to force Lily into going on a date with him, or used his friend to try and murder/maul/traumatized someone, or tried to abandon his pregnant wife--oh wait.

[montrasity]

imagine:

5th year. the marauders have just finished creating the map.

before this, severus can at least convince himself that running into james and sirius is bad luck. they’re bullies.

hogwarts is only so big. eventually your paths cross. they know where he is.

he skips dinner to hide in the library. they’re there.

he leaves potions early to take a route no one uses. they’re waiting.

he studies in an abandoned classroom three floors away from where he usually sits. somehow they “happen” to walk in five minutes later.

he starts changing his routines. doubling back. deliberately taking longer routes. hiding in broom cupboards just to see if they’re actually following him.

it doesn’t matter.

they always find him.

and severus’s paranoia is now boundless. because no one believes him? how could they? when he doesn’t even have proof. when they all think he’s just being like this because the marauders are always on his nerves.

so he decides to solve the problem himself.

is someone telling them where he is? is hogwarts enchanted? are they using some obscure tracking spell? he starts testing hypotheses because this is impossible. no fifteen-year-olds should be able to predict another person’s movements with this kind of accuracy.

while trying to figure out how they keep finding him, he starts noticing all the other things that don’t make sense. remus disappears every month. pomfrey escorts him off somewhere. the others get weirdly defensive whenever anyone asks where he’s been. there’s that bloody tree on the grounds no one’s allowed near.

in severus’s head, all of these clues become one giant mystery. he thinks if he figures out what they’re hiding, he’ll finally understand how they always know where he is.

and then sirius realizes exactly what’s happening. instead of just telling him how to get past the whomping willow, he says something like,

“you want to know how we keep finding you? go through the willow tonight.”

and of course severus goes.

[danadiadea]

One thing that I want everyone in this fandom to understand is that we see professor Snape specifically when he is triggered by the boy looking like his abuser. He is not on his typical behavior, but on his worst, most pissy and unpleasant one, and on top of that it's interpreted and told by a boy who hates Snape and is always ready to accuse him of shit. The dynamic that exists between Snape and Harry is HARRY SPECIFIC, because he is not just a random student, but a person directly connected with a lot of unresolved trauma and pain and guilt and additional responsibilities Severus carries, and that obviously influences his self-management. No-one else is a kid of Snape’s dead ex-best friend and ex-abuser, that makes him lose his composure in ways a mind reading maniac doesn't.

The only people who have problems with Snape in Harry's year are Harry and Neville – cause he and Severus are just REALLY incompatible people (had a separate meta on that so not talking about it here, but also, I think that if Neville wasn't in a group with Harry, Severus would've found it easier to manage his frustration at Neville's dangerous fuck-ups), to way lesser extent Ron and Hermione. That's IT. Snape is not a pleasant teacher, but all the kids in the school, or in Gryffindor, or in Harry's year don't have a problem with him, at least not a bigger one then teens typically have with demanding and harsh teachers.

[asoakedtoast]

The concept of people going “James looks likes a racist now’ is so funny, bc first off all, why are we even taking or taking this new Harry Potter reboot into consideration and second off all, JAMES WAS ALREADY ATTACKING A VERY POOR BOY FROM THE SLUMS WHILE BEING AN ARISTOCRAT JUST BC HE EXISTED?? LIKE IM SORRY BUT DO YOU PEOPLE NOT KNOW WHAT CLASSISM IS? DID YALL NEVER LEARN OF CASTE SYSTEM EITHER IN SCHOOL??😭😭😭 James attacking a black boy just bc he existed is no different from him attacking a poor boy just bc he existed, they both are fundamentally classist/racist?? Which are both as bad!!!! ITS EITHER HE LYNCHED A BLACK BOY, OR HE SYSTEMICALLY ABUSED A POOR BOY WHILE BEING (I CANT STRESS THIS ENOUGH) AN ARISTOCRAT

[ernest-pamphilow]

he is incredible.

[thekindslytherinn]

I’m normal about him I swear

[tou-na]

🦇の家にはおもちゃもぬいぐるみも無くて親に甘えられる環境でもないため、不安や悲しい時ボロボロの毛布を抱きしめて耐えていたかもしれない（そうしている間に寝てしまう事も）

[shashtsoh]

Quick sketch of teenage Severus Snape. ^_^

[montrasity]

“but they matured!”

Of course they did.

I don’t think people understand that when it comes to the dynamic of an abuser and their victim, the abuser can always move on and change at any time.

All because of one simple reason; they weren’t the ones that had to be on the receiving end of the trauma.

The abusers can move on and live their happy lives without ever having to think twice about their pasts, chalk it up to ‘them being kids and not knowing any better’ while the victim has to live with the burnt of that trauma for the rest of their life.

It’s why the argument that the marauders ‘grew up and matured’ always falls flat to my ears because it always feels as if it’s used as an excuse to blame the victim for not being able to let go of their trauma and ‘get over it’, especially because severus was never shown to have ever had a good support system for him ‘getting over it’ to have ever been a possibility.

Even more-so when it’s shown that the marauders hadn’t changed or matured at all.

Did they ever apologize?

Did they ever try to atone for their actions?

No, they never did. They simply chose to forget about it and move on with their lives. Because it did not affect them.

They grew up, they got married, they enjoyed life, and when they died their sins were wiped clean and they were martyred and worshipped by the entire wizarding world.

It’s no wonder that Severus carried as much bitterness as he did.

[sablevivarium]

a lack of tact