You know what’s actually exhausting about this new adaptation?
I went in wanting to be excited. I really did. Because a black Snape opposite a white Evans/Potter duo had the potential to finally force people to confront dynamics this fandom has spent decades pretending aren’t there—classism, social exclusion, the way Snape is tolerated at best and humiliated at worst while everyone around him gets a moral pass.
We’re already back to Hagrid parroting the same tired propaganda about how James and Lily were the “kindest, bravest people ever,” and I can feel the narrative lining up to do exactly what it has always done:
Lie. Smooth things over. Tell you not to look too closely.
Because the second you do look closely, the whole thing falls apart—especially where Lily is concerned.
This is the “kind” girl who:
tells someone he should be grateful to his abuser after nearly being killed
stands there during his public humiliation—him being stripped, mocked, dehumanized—and can’t even fully hide that she’s enjoying the spectacle
throws “my friends don’t even know why I talk to you” in his face like he’s some embarrassing charity project she’s outgrown
cuts him off permanently for one moment at his lowest while continuing to surround herself with the people who made his life hell
And I’m supposed to accept that as kindness?
No, seriously—based on what?
Because what that actually looks like is someone who:
enforces moral standards selectively
aligns herself with whoever holds social power
and withdraws the second standing by him costs her anything
That’s not kindness. That’s convenience dressed up as virtue.
And what makes it worse is that the story never challenges it. Ever.
Lily is just… declared good. Untouchable. Morally correct by default.
Meanwhile Snape gets dissected down to the bone for every mistake he’s ever made—context ignored, circumstances flattened, humanity optional.
So what you end up with is this completely lopsided narrative where:
she gets to hurt him, dismiss him, abandon him—and still be called “the best of us”
and he gets reduced to “the guy who loved her” like that’s the only thing about him that matters
And now this show is gearing up to do it all over again. Same framing. Same excuses. Same refusal to actually engage with what’s on the page.
No accountability.
No nuance.
No honesty.
Just another glossy retelling where the people who caused harm are softened into heroes, and the person who suffered it gets turned into a cautionary tale.
I’m so tired of being told this is a story about kindness when the actual behavior on display is anything but.
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