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INFJ || 8w7 || ADHD || I’m @ValiumRogue on AO3|| Spanish || Multifandom || pro-Severus Snape

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To everyone who’s newly following this account, and to those who aren’t new but didn’t know: this blog is inactive. I only reblog things from the blog where I’m actually active right now. I decided to move, and I only use this one to share my posts from the other. If you want to follow me or keep up with me, you can do so here: @inthemoodforblastt

[swaggyseverus]

The same people who oppose Severus acting in self-defense against his bullies are those that are opposed to resistance by oppressed peoples in real life but I have no way to prove my theory so I'm just going to keep quiet.

[maliciouslittlewhiteboy]

i genuinely don’t get why people aren’t allowed to dislike snape in snape stans eyes

[inthemoodforblastt]

We don't give a damn if you don't like Snape; what bothers us is when people attack the character for things that a) are pure fanon, b) are purely classist, or c) are absurd arguments that aren't supported by the canon and have been pulled out of thin air to try to justify point b).

It’s also pretty annoying when a certain fandom is capable of redeeming fucking Barty Crouch Jr. but decides to bash Snape for no reason or simply remove him from the narrative so their classist bully faves don’t look bad.

If you avoid all that —which basically means avoiding being a total idiot with zero brain cells— you’ll avoid the hate. I promise you, sweetie.

[maliciouslittlewhiteboy]

hi, if you dont enjoy anti snape content, please block the tag and ignore posts that may speak negatively on his character. dont act patronizing by calling me “sweetie” and act like an asshole and disrespectful and call me a “total idiot eith zero brain cells”. dont come onto my blog if youre simply going to hate on what i have to say and disregard what i said

i simply just dont like snape! honestly, i dont even really dislike him, he’s just not a character i care about. which is fine! people are allowed to not care about other characters. in fact—i even find him an interesting character sometimes. me not caring about him isn’t because of classism—in fact, it has nothing to do with his financial position, i didnt even know he was poor to be fully honest. i simply dont care for him.

and im not bashing snape here, if you’ll see my original post. i am simply saying i dont enjoy how many snape fans—or the ones ive encountered—are disrespectful when people either dont care/like snape or bring up criticisms of his character. i personally dont gloss over the marauders’ bullying or barty’s cruel actions, but i also dont gloss over snape’s bullying of innocent children.

if you want to have a respectful conversation, go ahead. but im personally not going to go back and forth over arguments.

[inthemoodforblastt]

Love, reading comprehension really isn’t your strong suit, is it? Because at no point did I say that you do those things, nor did I insult you, nor did I say that you were lacking in brain cells.

You made a post saying that it’s impossible to hate Snape because Snape fans immediately jump down your throat. And I explained that you can absolutely dislike the character and nobody is going to come after you for it by default. If people push back or respond to you, it’s usually for a number of specific reasons. If you’re identifying yourself with those reasons and taking them personally, maybe it’s because you do those things. Because honestly, if you don’t, why would you feel called out?

What I did was explain why Snape fans usually react the way they do, and I gave you the reasons for it. You decided to take that personally. I don’t know whether you do those things or not. I gave you an explanation. I never said that you do them. And I think I express myself pretty clearly. So either you struggle with basic reading comprehension, or you’ve taken it personally for some reason.

That said, there’s really not much else to say.

There are certain arguments people make against Snape that are deeply classist. They are classist because they completely ignore his socioeconomic background and his family circumstances. And if you ignore someone’s socioeconomic and family context while making moral arguments about them, you’re engaging in classism.

Am I saying that you personally make those arguments? No. I’m saying that a lot of people do, and that’s one of the reasons why they get pushback. Not that you do it. If you don’t do those things, then you’re not going to get hate for it.

But don’t play the victim and claim that “every time you say something negative about Snape, people attack you,” because that’s simply not true. If you just say something like, “I can’t stand him because I’m a huge Harry, Ron, and Hermione fan and he was awful to them,” nobody is going to come after you for that. No Snape fan is going to start attacking a Golden Trio fan who dislikes him because he treated their favourite characters badly, because we completely understand that perspective. They’re your favourite characters and he was, frankly, a massive arsehole towards them. Of course it’s understandable that you wouldn’t like him. Now, if your argument is, “He joined an extremist group, he was a racist, he was basically a Nazi,” then people are going to challenge that for a number of reasons.

And there’s also the fact that plenty of people adore characters like Barty Crouch Jr. or Evan Rosier, presenting them as fascinating, nuanced, misunderstood favourites, when they were essentially elitist terrorist arseholes who practically worshipped Voldemort. It’s not even that they were particularly attached to each other; what they really wanted was to suck up to the Dark Lord, and yet they’re fan favourites for reasons I genuinely don’t understand. Barty Crouch Jr., as an adult, spent an entire year teaching children while actively traumatising them and physically assaulting them, so I don’t really understand the double standard there. So when a Snape fan sees someone viciously bashing Snape while simultaneously being a huge Barty Crouch Jr. fan, there’s obviously a pretty significant degree of cognitive dissonance.

What Snape fans often see is this: the upper-class man from a respectable family, with political connections and social privilege, becomes a fan favourite. Meanwhile, the man who grew up in extreme poverty, who lived in what was essentially a slum, who couldn’t even afford proper clothes because his family couldn’t buy them and had to wear his mother’s old things, and who isn’t conventionally attractive, is the one who receives all the hatred. So why are you taking this personally when I never attacked you in the first place? I told you how the situation tends to work and why people react the way they do.

If you’ve taken it personally, maybe there’s a reason for that.

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Hey, @maliciouslittlewhiteboy since you’re going around presenting yourself as the mature one here, you could at least acknowledge that you were wrong and misinterpreted what I said before blocking me. Especially because it comes across a bit poorly when, after someone takes the time to explain their point to you, you simply block them because you’re not interested in admitting you jumped to conclusions and built an entire narrative in your head.

That being said, it’s very interesting how triggered people seem to get by the word classism. Could it be because we’re culturally and socially conditioned to overlook the actions of elites, but not those of people who have been socialised as marginalised? Could it be that the fact your favourites are canonically privileged, upper-class characters actually has quite a lot to do with the way society conditions us to be inherently classist unless we make a conscious effort to deconstruct those biases?

Nobody is asking you to like a character. But it would be nice if people stopped pretending that the reason they like certain “villains” has nothing to do with the fact that those characters aren’t poor or unattractive. The fact that the poor, unattractive character either repulses you or leaves you completely indifferent isn’t some random coincidence.

You’re welcome.

[cielosilencio]

I love being the type of Severus stan that defends him while not justifying the bad things he did 🥰 Because ignoring and justifying being a death eater and his treatment of the students is mischaracterizing and dare i say underwhelming his role of a twist hero

The point of his character is that you're not SUPPOSED to like him until you finally put the pieces together and realize he's the good guy. The point of his character is to acknowledge his wrongs as much as his rights and love him for that. For his growth and development.

I love him so much. I love his flaws and I love how he grew from his past.

I feel like too many Snape apologists keep forgetting that he is a flawed character and that his traumas don't excuse or justify his past. I was one of those Snape apologists who treated him like a saint, but then the thing is- if he's a saint then how are you supposed to enjoy his complexity?

[gravitytrips]

REAL real

it never clicked in my brain that that’s what he is - a twist Hero. Because you only ever see that applied to a twist villain. In fact, in all the media I’ve consumed, Snape is probably the only twist hero I’ve ever seen. Not a bad guy that has character development over the series and turns out good by the end. A guy that you hated right along with the main character up until it was suddenly revealed that he was working WITH the mf all along. And then the pieces all fall into place.

I love him forever, and his horrendous actions are part of him. Without the terrible things he did in the past, he would not be the same character that he is today.

[inthemoodforblastt]

And this is the problem this fandom generally has: a lack of media literacy. With that, you’re basically confirming that if Severus Snape is the only “twist hero” this person has ever seen, then their level doesn’t go beyond Disney Channel because right now there are tons of shows with supposedly heroic characters who are morally complex and run circles around that kind of duality. I mean, The Boys is literally airing right now Mariana, what are you even talking about? Some of you need to stop consuming kids’ content and start engaging with adult fiction, because your perspective is extremely limited due to a lack of general cultural exposure, honestly.

For these people “horrendous actions” means being 17 and getting involved in a terrorist cult. I don’t know, if they ever watch Narcos they’ll probably have an aneurysm or something. Don’t even watch Breaking Bad, you might have twelve heart attacks in a row from the “horrendous actions” of the characters. It’s like talking to fucking Donald Duck when those people talks about morality.

[cielosilencio]

There's nothing wrong with analyzing and enjoying 'kids' media. Even they have twist heroes as well. So what if Severus is the only twist hero someone's seen? Thats fine! I'm all for adding to the conversation and seeing people's side of things but we're talking about Harry Potter, not The Boys (which I am currently watching) or Breaking bad. Telling people to grow up isn't adding anything. People have different perceptions of 'horrendous actions' and it aint your job to decide whats horrendous and whats not. OBVIOUSLY there's worse characters who have done worse things but this conversation isn't about that. Let people analyze what they want to analyze. Adult, kids or young adult doesn't matter. There's complex characters EVERYWHERE not just in adult media and the point of media literacy is to approach the media you consume with MORE than just that what's on face value. The media people consume isn't the problem. Its how people consume it.

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Thinking that a 17-year-old joining a terrorist cult because they see it as the only way to become something in life is not a horrendous act, it’s a social tragedy. A tragedy that affects tens of thousands of children and teenagers around the world who end up in gangs and guerrilla groups because those are the places where they’re made to feel useful and are promised a future they’ve never been able to see for themselves. If, as a functional, well-educated adult, you really think a case like that is the teenager’s responsibility rather than the responsibility of those who failed them, and you think that understanding how they got there is the same as excusing it, then maybe you should re-examine that classism, because you’re missing a lot of Marxist sociology and theory in general.

[cielosilencio]

I love being the type of Severus stan that defends him while not justifying the bad things he did 🥰 Because ignoring and justifying being a death eater and his treatment of the students is mischaracterizing and dare i say underwhelming his role of a twist hero

The point of his character is that you're not SUPPOSED to like him until you finally put the pieces together and realize he's the good guy. The point of his character is to acknowledge his wrongs as much as his rights and love him for that. For his growth and development.

I love him so much. I love his flaws and I love how he grew from his past.

I feel like too many Snape apologists keep forgetting that he is a flawed character and that his traumas don't excuse or justify his past. I was one of those Snape apologists who treated him like a saint, but then the thing is- if he's a saint then how are you supposed to enjoy his complexity?

[inthemoodforblastt]

It’s your moral point of view if you think it’s terrible that a kid in certain socioeconomic conditions ends up falling victim to certain groups—that’s not mine. And that’s not about justifying anything; it’s about putting things into perspective. I’m not going to blame a kid with no resources for trying to survive however they can. I don’t do that in the real world with people who’ve been in prison for far worse things, so I’m certainly not going to do it over a character in a fantasy book series.

But I find that supposed moral superiority some of you have really out of place, the kind where you go, “I love Snape but I don’t deny the bad things he did.” I don’t know, Mariana, but HONESTLY, I don’t think he did anything wrong. A lot of characters i love and enjoy a lot did very very terrible things, Severus is an angel if you compare.

By the way, a character can be a saint and still be complex. That’s not the case with Snape, because he wasn’t a saint, but goodness or badness has nothing to do with a character’s complexity, what matters is their construction, their arc, their depth, and their conflict. Thinking that a “good” character automatically equals a flat character says quite a lot—and nothing good—about your understanding of character analysis.

[cielosilencio]

If thats what you think then go ahead. Just because I believe that joining a supremist group (even for protection) isn't a good thing because it essentially harmed an entire group of innocent people doesn't mean I don't understand why he did it. You can do bad things with the best intentions.

Intention ≠ actions.

You may think he's a saint compared to other characters you've seen, sure. But I don't care about comparing him to other characters.

We clearly have different views on complexity and morality of characters and I won't engage any further with you. You can analyze my interpretations without attacking my character because you know nothing about my morals and nothing about me. I respect your points of view and what you had to add to the conversation. But what I don't tolerate is that you're implying my views are inferior to yours or like I'm stupid because you have more knowledge of media than I do, its disrespectful.

I'll be blocking you now because I have no interest going back and forth with you. Have a good day/night.

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You’ve just been spoken to the way adults speak, you’re not being treated as less; that’s your perception, and your lack of self-esteem isn’t other people’s responsibility. If you’re going to make such broad, categorical statements about a fandom in public, you’re opening yourself up to people responding. No, not everyone thinks what Severus did was such a big deal. You do? Great, but then speak from your perspective and don’t judge or label others as apologists or as people who don’t understand the character. Because many people understand the character—maybe even better than you—and that’s precisely why they think he didn’t do anything wrong, or at least nothing worth condemning.

[lary-the-lizard]

Don't call yourself a 'lefty' when you can't even think level headedly about a fictional character in poverty and only woobify the rich ones like regulus black lol

Welcome to my dictatorship where I force everyone to hate Snape and woobify Regulus Black inside their affordable if not free houses while healthcare is free and being a rich is practically impossible and everyone has human rights and owning a gun is basically illegal and the death penalty is gone and every community decides how they manage their society and the homeless are given somewhere to live and the care they need and prisons were eliminated and social safety nets are strong and checks and balances are used daily to make sure politicians can’t do evil shit and people of color and queer people are well represented in law and abortion is an understood method of medical treatment and hate crime is properly addressed and children have voice in politics disabled people are represented in politics and given the resources they need to live comfortably and artists have enough financial security to create and mental health is valued just as much as physical health because they’re actually the same thing and basically what the fuck do you think being a leftist fucking is?

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De izquierdas pero no demasiado no sea que tenga que asumir que es un puto clasista de cojones.

You’re a classist who made classist and ableist comments have some decency at least.

[inthemoodforblastt]

Of course, after we told this person several things, like, for example, that Severus Snape wasn’t an incel, because an incel is basically a guy who hates women, insults them online, and says he won’t sleep with them because he’s a misogynist and because as far as I know, in canon, Snape never hates women, is never resentful toward the female gender, and never has a bad relationship with women. In fact, the characters he has the most cordial or at least decent relationships with are women, and at no point does he say he’s going to stop sleeping with women because one of them rejected him. That just never happens.

So I don’t know what this person thinks an incel is, maybe to them it just means a man who respects your decisions, because let’s remember that when Lily tells him she doesn’t want anything to do with him anymore, Snape accepts it and leaves her alone. So maybe this person thinks incels are just men who respect boundaries.

On top of that, besides telling them it’s pretty bad to just make things up like that, it’s also pretty shitty to talk about someone’s personal hygiene as an insult, because there can be many reasons why someone struggles with hygiene. For example, they might come from an environment where they weren’t taught good habits because there weren’t resources like Snape, who is canonically poor. People seem to forget that Snape is canonically poor and even wore women’s clothing because it was his mother’s and they had nothing else. It could also be due to mental health issues. And it’s pretty ironic, because this person talks a lot on their Tumblr about mental health and how important it is. Sure, but then you go and use poor hygiene as an insult, when you should know that people with mental health issues or neurodivergence often neglect hygiene during episodes.

Anyway, after pointing all this out to them, and also telling them it’s a bit hypocritical to claim they care about queer issues while basically just taking attractive rich boys and turning them into twinks so they can hook up with each other, and after pointing out how cynical and hypocritical that is we ended up saying that the way they expressed themselves was pretty sad. And after all that, instead of responding to the arguments from everyone involved, this person just blocked all of us, because clearly they had no arguments left.

The question I always have about these people—the ones who show up on a post and start saying all this nonsense—is: why do they block afterwards? Like, I’m the first one to reblog something and tell the person who wrote it that what they said is complete bullshit and that they can fuck off. But I never, ever block anyone. Because if I go looking for a fight, I deal with the consequences.

So my question is: why do all these people, who are so convinced that Severus Snape is terrible and irredeemable, that he can’t be softened or interpreted as queer or turned into a “twink” or a good person—but at the same time are totally fine taking all the fanatical Death Eaters of his generation and turning them into characters straight out of Euphoria—why do they jump in and then run away? Why don’t they stick around? Why don’t they have the guts? Seriously, if you’re not going to handle people responding to you, maybe just don’t say anything.

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Hi @lary-the-lizard

[neptuneverypretty-deactivated20]

I'm a 100% sure that people who don't believe in wolfstar are flat earthers or something.

like OPEN UR EYES GUYS. READ STUFF.

[inthemoodforblastt]

No, we’re just people who’ve read the books and are over 12 which is why we know that’s the lamest, most boring, virgin-coded ship that exists. You’re welcome, my love.

[em0tionallymotionsick]

(almost) every wolfstar post i see could also apply to rosekiller and it takes everything in me to not reblog all of them and say "omg so rosekiller"

WOLFSTAR AND ROSEKILLER ARE SOOOO VARIANTS OF EACHOTHER WHY ARENT MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS

[inthemoodforblastt]

What that shows is how little imagination you have, because basically all your crack!ships are the same and the only thing that changes is how you style their hair and clothes. At the end of the day you don’t even have characters, you’ve got Sims with no personality that you swap around depending on whatever aesthetic suits you.

[inthemoodforblastt]

You’ve got to have some serious nerve and zero shame to have headcanons about Pandora-whatever, who nobody cares about, or Alice-whatever, and not have a single mention of Severus Snape on your blog when he’s not only the main character of the Marauders era, but the entire Marauders lore exists because of him. I mean, you can bash him if you want, but basically ignoring an entire fandom is pretty shitty, yeah.

[inthemoodforblastt]

The first comment had to obviously be someone confirming exactly what I’m saying, it never fails.

[inthemoodforblastt]

Snape ruins the fun for people in the Marauders fandom, because with him in the picture they actually have to acknowledge what real problems look like, and they can’t keep pretending that their rich blorbos with first-world problems are these poor little puppies they try to frame them as. Which again brings us to the discourse about classism and aporophobia in that fandom, which is blatant.

Every time I see people making headcanons even for Dolores Umbridge but not for Snape, I just think they’re simply classist, and that’s it.

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To everyone who’s newly following this account, and to those who aren’t new but didn’t know: this blog is inactive. I only reblog things from the blog where I’m actually active right now. I decided to move, and I only use this one to share my posts from the other. If you want to follow me or keep up with me, you can do so here: @inthemoodforblastt

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To everyone who’s newly following this account, and to those who aren’t new but didn’t know: this blog is inactive. I only reblog things from the blog where I’m actually active right now. I decided to move, and I only use this one to share my posts from the other. If you want to follow me or keep up with me, you can do so here: @inthemoodforblastt

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To everyone who’s newly following this account, and to those who aren’t new but didn’t know: this blog is inactive. I only reblog things from the blog where I’m actually active right now. I decided to move, and I only use this one to share my posts from the other. If you want to follow me or keep up with me, you can do so here: @inthemoodforblastt

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To everyone who’s newly following this account, and to those who aren’t new but didn’t know: this blog is inactive. I only reblog things from the blog where I’m actually active right now. I decided to move, and I only use this one to share my posts from the other. If you want to follow me or keep up with me, you can do so here: @inthemoodforblastt

[inthemoodforblastt]

i could hear you talk about sirius all day, you are so insightful about him and it’s just very interesting to hear! it does make me sad when people erase the traits and dynamics that basically define him? fanon sirius is genuinely nothing compared to the compelling mess he is canonically.

Okay, this is gonna be so fucking long lmao.

The thing with Sirius is that, on one hand, I’m not going to talk about fandom Sirius, because fandom Sirius, for me, isn’t really Sirius Black. What they’ve done with him is basically a teenage fantasy from some low-budget Netflix-style series for Gen Z. So I don’t consider that to be Sirius Black. The Sirius Black who’s 1.70 m, skinny, wears crop tops, and acts like a 2010 Justin Bieber fangirl, that’s not Sirius Black, that’s something they invented, it doesn’t fit canon.

So I’m going to focus on canon Sirius, the Sirius Black in the books. Even people who claim to be fans of canon Sirius, who say all their theories, metas, and headcanons are based on the real Sirius—the one we see in the books—I still deeply disagree with what they say. They have a very idealized idea of him. Even fans of canon Sirius, who are aware of his flaws, still see him as the classic romantic rebel: the teen who grows up in a very conservative, right-wing family, rebels against the family’s establishment and the status quo, leaves home, gets a motorcycle, seeks freedom, joins a countercultural or political movement, fights for liberty and justice, basically the archetype rebel fantasy. And people forget that Sirius isn’t interesting because of that.

Sirius isn’t interesting because he’s the archetypal rebellious teen who rejects his conservative parents and seeks freedom. He’s interesting —and tragic— because, no matter how hard he tries not to resemble his family, no matter how much he tries to do the opposite of what his family would do, and no matter how much he positions himself at the polar opposite of his family’s ideology, he ends up reproducing the exact same archetypes he was taught. You can’t just run away from your family and be free. If you want to truly unlearn all the toxic dynamics, behaviors, and ways of reacting instilled by your family, you have to work on yourself. And the first step is accepting that you are your parents’ child, a product of where you grew up.

Sirius constantly demonstrates this. He treats Severus terribly, just as Bellatrix might. What’s the difference between Bellatrix and Sirius? Bellatrix doesn’t try to kill Severus, but her contempt and lack of respect toward him is exactly the same as Sirius’s. Her disrespect toward house-elves is the same as Sirius’s toward Kreacher. The ferocity with which Bellatrix despises “the other”—whether political enemy or personal adversary—is mirrored in how Sirius despises others in his social circle. He’s a reflection of his family and upbringing.

Yes, he might exist on a different political spectrum, which is why people find him “cool,” but all the attitudes he learned from his mother, he never deconstructed. He’s still classist. He knows that despising Muggle-borns is wrong, so he redirects his discrimination toward other targets acceptable in his social environment. But he hasn’t actually worked on himself. The years of therapy required for someone raised in Sirius’s environment to deconstruct all those attitudes would be enormous. That’s a huge part of his tragedy.

He sees himself as a hero. He has a big image of himself, he sees himself as a rock star in his youth, pre-Azkaban, because leaving the family wasn’t just an act; it was a way to defy his mother. His whole problem with his family comes from his relationship with his mother. At his core, he isn’t rebelling against family ideals, he’s rebelling against his mother’s ideals. He has a toxic, dysfunctional dependence on her, which resonates later when he’s locked in the family house for a year, drinking in her room. Why her room and not any other? There must have been empty rooms, but he chooses hers, and even imagines a hippo in there destroying things while he drinks and cries.

His mother’s authority haunts him his entire life. He tries not to be like her, but he ends up behaving similarly. She would behave this way toward a muggle, he behaves that way toward other people. Many people miss this, and as a result, they overlook the most interesting aspect of his character. I wouldn’t call him a hypocrite, because he isn’t aware of it. He thinks he’s doing everything right, but in reality, he’s just a rich kid from a very conservative family, raised to believe he’s superior, where violence and even sadism were normalized, and Sirius internalizes that.

Normalizing a near-homicidal attack on a classmate just because he dislikes them? Normalized violence. Constantly assaulting students at school? Normalized violence and sadism, clearly inherited from his family. Many of his behaviors are reflections of the Black family’s attitudes. He’s on a different political spectrum, but the thing is, not understanding that aspect of Sirius seems to me like leaving out a huge part of his character, and I think it’s a waste of hours and hours of analysis on a character, starting from a premise that I consider wrong and very superficial, honestly. Because I think it’s way more interesting to analyze Sirius not as a victim of trauma just because his mommy yelled at him or hit him. First of all, we don’t even know that his mother hit him, there’s no evidence that Walburga was a physically abusive person. That’s totally a fandom invention. And also, we don’t have clear knowledge that he was abused in his home. What we know is that he and his mom had a very dysfunctional relationship.

To me, simply reducing Sirius to “he was abused at home, escaped, became a hero because his family was awful, they were all right-wing racists, rich aristocrats, horrible and evil” and that’s why we admire him— girl, why are people so basic? Why are people so naïve? Why are they so bland? Do you see what I mean? Why do people simplify the narrative so much?

You have a character with a toxic attachment to his maternal figure, which also shows in how he interacts with women in the series and how women perceive him. Remember that both Molly and Hermione judge him very harshly. Hermione is essentially Rowling’s voice in the narrative, and we know that for Rowling, Molly is the ideal mother who cares for her children. So narratively, Rowling is telling us, “This is what she thinks of Sirius.”

The fact that Bellatrix—a woman—is the one who kills him, and that the female figures he interacts with always have some conflict with him, fits perfectly with the theme of his problems with his mother. The fact that both he and his mother have such strong personalities aligns with why their confrontations were so intense and why he eventually leaves home. It also fits with his absolute rejection of everything social, ideological, and economic tied to his mother. But rejecting those things doesn’t mean he stops being her son, doesn’t mean he stops being part of his family, and doesn’t mean he ever worked on himself to deconstruct the attitudes he inherited during his childhood. Attitudes that are classist, violent, normalize problematic behavior, and ethically questionable.

It’s not that Sirius is irresponsible, it’s that he’s used to doing whatever he wants because he grew up in a family that believed they were above others. They could do whatever they wanted, however they wanted. This is also seen in Bellatrix. So discarding all these factors about Sirius takes away… a lot of what makes his character interesting.

I don’t usually talk about him much, because he’s not in my top 10 favorite characters to discuss (also don’t a problem to do anyways it’s interesting to analyze) but he’s a character I analyzed a lot back in the day because he reminded me of people I’ve known; people from extremely conservative, religiously strict, messed-up families. People from politically far-right families who rebelled against their parents by adopting a completely opposite ideology: leftist politics, unions, activism. I’ve been very involved in grassroots politics, not online politics, but in associations and field politics, and I’ve met many “Sirius Blacks” in real life. They had good intentions, but then you’d go to a bar with them and if the bartender was slow, they’d treat the bartender like trash, because that’s how they were raised to see service. Just like Sirius does with Kreacher: “service is service.”

I found that to be a fascinating reflection of how these kids from oppressive, conservative families behave: they rebel against their parents by adopting the opposite ideology, but without deconstructing the values they were taught, so they always end up being the same archetype. That’s what interested me the most.

So what surprises me about the fandom is that people rarely talk about this aspect of him. Even fans of canon Sirius don’t talk about this. And I don’t understand it, because to me, that’s the most interesting part of his character. You could analyze his relationship with his mother, which I also find super interesting. Honestly, men with mommy issues are fascinating to analyze, they’re basically a meme, a cliché, every single one. But I don’t know why the fandom doesn’t discuss these things more.

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