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Something you only realize when reading the book first is that the people who watch the movies first are so misled on many characters ( mainly Ron , Sirius, James and Snape )

I'm gonna take Snape as an example first because I believe he has the most noticeable change. Snape is not a buff adequately attractive male dilf with a tendency to bully Harry , with a deep voice .

Bro is a thin, scrawny, girly pop with long hair with feminine handwriting, an almost unhealthy acquaintances with rich death eaters. Snape was never a purist, and even his love for Lily being romantic is questionable ( I personally think it's more of a siblings like attachment thing ) . Bro just wanted to get powerful, and Malfoy was like, " Let me just take this socially dumb boy to shower him with fake praises and tell him that joining the death eaters will give him powerful ). Snape didn't go around killing muggleborn people. He barely hated anyone, and the group he was mad at had 3 people who tried to kill him. One almost succeeded ( Read the books. Sirius mentions this in the Prisoner of Azkaban and the Order of Pheonix )

Snape is like the transcoded tragic genius who is being played on the string like a puppet and gets so cranky because of it that he ends up snaping on children and gives out mean comments.

smilingformoney

random sad snape thought time

if he became a spy at 19 without making voldy sus then he was definitely already a master occlumens

which means he taught himself occlumency as a teenager

severus snape had such a traumatic childhood that he became a master of the art of repressing emotions as a child

please all stand still while I collect your tears into my mug to make myself young again thank you x

said-snape-softly

It means a lot to me that Snape does what he does to undermine Voldemort even while canonically terrified of him.

Snape pales noticeably when he is asked to return to Voldemort. In Occlumency lessons, he gets distinctly uncomfortable at Harry’s slinging his name around like it’s nothing:

“Dumbledore is an extremely powerful wizard,” Snape muttered. “While he may feel secure enough to use the name ... the rest of us ...”

His report to Dumbledore of Voldemort’s anger over losing the diary conveys enough of his fear that Dumbledore describes it to Harry as “terrible to behold”. He hesitates for the space of a heartbeat before entering the Death Eater meeting in The Dark Lord Ascending. And of course, he pales until his face resembles a “death mask” as he understands that the borrowed time he has been living on is up. And on each of these occasions, we see him continue his difficult work anyways.

These small moments give us a glimpse of the human under the mask that Snape presents to Voldemort, and help us start to understand the considerable toll that his work must have taken on him.

pet-genius

YES. I don't know why people seem to think the whole process was just about putting up his shields or something mechanical like that. Voldemort tortured a Death Eater for... No reason at all, when he first returned. Snape had sent him to his death, triggered the mechanism that made the killing curse backfire, switched sides, protected Harry in front of him, kept him away from the stone, and tried to get Sirius kissed (while believing Sirius to be on Voldemort's side). The man was walking on a fraying tightrope. It would have been terrible writing to make him particularly zen about it all.

maxdibert

The difference between Severus Snape and James Potter is that Snaters have to make up canon, come up with terrible assumptions, and pull theories out of thin air to paint Severus as the ultimate villain, while those of us who despise James simply need to point out that someone who publicly strips another person is a piece of shit. Reality is harsh, folks.

maxdibert

RIP Severus Snape, you would have loved the millennials. The ’90s-born millennials, deeply disenchanted with life and the world, who make dark jokes about their mental health, about wanting to die, and who use sarcasm and dark humor to cope with their shitty traumas.

You would have loved having a bunch of deeply depressed teenage students identifying with The Smiths songs about getting hit by a double-decker bus and just wanting to shoot themselves.

I wish you had lived long enough to actually have them, you would have enjoyed the peace of mind of not being judged for being such an asshole.

chanchansthings

TW: BLOOD

No worries, he survived

ollywander

Snily study (reference below)

#not really into snily but its a great peace of art #and I can always imagine that's actually me #severus snape #severus art #snape #harry potter fanart #sketch

zieschu

snape doodle in classssss #slackingoff!!

xweex-deactivated20260125

I love when people go "Remus should've raised Harry" like babe he didn't want to raise his own biological son

flymetosnarryland

Scars and moles, um, not much visible but present, hehe. Can't wait for the weekend, uh! And hoping for some good vibes for being able to figure out some struggles with writing 😩

prongsinrevolt

I cannot believe people let Snape get the high ground.

How do people casually overlook the fact that Snape spent six entire years of his life telling a kid—who never even got the chance to know his father—that said father was an arrogant douchebag? Like, how do people think that behavior is normal?

Snape, a grown man, spent years trying to convince a grieving, orphaned child that his dead father—who literally died protecting his family—was a terrible person. No compassion for a man who gave his life for his wife and son. No sympathy for a kid who grew up abused, unloved, and completely alone, only learning about his parents through stories told by others.

Instead, Snape chose to rehash his teenage rivalry with James Potter by bullying his son. Imagine being so petty that you can’t move past your high school grudges, even when the other person has been dead for over a decade.

Even the coldest, most detached person would muster some respect for a man who died fighting for good. But Snape? No. He chose to sit on his high horse—ignoring the fact that he was once a Death Eater who only changed sides when his own personal interests were threatened—and still had the audacity to act morally superior to James.

James Potter died a hero. Snape, on the other hand, spent his life tormenting the child of the woman he claimed to love—while refusing to let go of a teenage rivalry and weaponizing it against a traumatized, grieving boy.

I cannot get over how utterly selfish and cruel that is. Snape had no empathy for the dead and no sympathy for the living. And people still try to defend him? Seriously?

maxdibert

Honestly, I don’t give credit for the bare minimum. James Potter didn’t die a hero; he died an idiot who forgot to grab his wand. Even if he had fought heroically, that wouldn’t make him a hero—it would make him an average husband and father. Like, why do people try to make the most basic things seem extraordinary when it comes to cishet white dudes? What James did is literally what you’d expect from any average husband or father when their family is in danger. It’s the bare minimum: you protect your child. It’s not some incredible feat—it’s just the baseline. It’s like saying you’ve met a guy and he’s amazing because he doesn’t treat you like crap.

I don’t know if the problem is that many of you had terrible father figures or dads who “went out for milk” and never came back, but if someone even tried to lay a hand on me, my dad would break their jaw. And not because he’s the bravest, most incredible, or most heroic person in the world, but because he’s my dad, and that’s what dads do for their kids.

On another note, I love how this post conveniently ignores the fact that Severus was deeply traumatized by James because of the systematic bullying and abuse James inflicted on him. You call James a hero, but a hero doesn’t use their position of power to abuse others. In fact, you hate Severus for doing the same thing James did to him: exploiting his power over someone to dominate and mistreat them. The only difference is that James wasn’t a traumatized person, didn’t have deep psychological scars, wasn’t raised in a violent environment, and wasn’t incapable of handling his emotions.

James Potter was a rich kid from a near-aristocratic family who grew up with the love of his parents and a solid support system his entire life, yet he chose to be a piece of trash. He didn’t just hex random people in the halls for fun; he chose as his main victim a working-class kid with no family name, no resources—social, economic, or familial—to defend himself. That’s not heroic; that’s pathetic. Especially when we’re talking about someone who, because his best friend was bored, cornered a kid who was all alone, outnumbered him, stripped him against his will in front of half the school, and asphyxiated him. That’s the hero you’re defending, and you should be ashamed of yourself for being so cynical and hypocritical to conveniently skip over all of these facts to defend a completely sanitized version of the character.

Yes, Severus was a jerk and had a terrible personality. But Severus wasn’t a functional adult. You’re expecting a deeply traumatized person with an unresolved history of abuse to handle his emotions like someone who has had the chance to heal, go to therapy, and receive treatment—and that wasn’t the case. Severus never had the time to heal from anything. He was abused by his father, bullied by rich kids at school, and then forced back into that same school by Dumbledore—the place where he experienced his worst traumas—and you expect him to be functional? No, he wasn’t functional.

And yes, he didn’t have the right to take out James’s sins on Harry, but you know what else he did? He saved Harry’s ass, along with his friends, from the very first year. Without Severus, they would’ve died twenty times over before the seventh book. But you conveniently skipped over that too because you’re not interested in acknowledging it.

Severus wasn’t a pleasant guy or the best friend to children, but he always made sure those kids made it to the end of the year alive. He took on the role of a double agent, risking his life multiple times to confront the most dangerous wizard of all, deceiving him, and working for the greater good. He stuck to Dumbledore’s plan, even if it meant becoming a monster in the eyes of everyone else and carrying all the blame and hatred of the people he was fighting for. He fought for the good side even when the good side had always despised, underestimated, and hated him. And he gave his life for the cause when it was necessary.

And what did James do? Be a bully, get pregnant his teenage girlfriend, get married at 19, spend most of his 20s hiding at home, and die in his pajamas because he forgot his wand? Incredible contribution to society. At least he donated sperm—what a feat.