My opinion on the âJames vs Snapeâ issue.
I love the HP fandom, but I just hate how in this fandom Snape gets more love than he deserves, meanwhile James Potter gets more hate than he will ever deserve. I canât believe that itâs 2017 and people still believe Snape was a hero and James was a terrible person.
James Potter was a jerk when he was a teen and yes, he bullied Snape. But he was 15, and âa lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteenâ. Tell me that you werenât an idiot sometimes at that age, I dare you.
If he was such a bad person, then why was he totally okay with Remus being a werewolf? He loved his friends like nobody else, and itâs canon. He became an unregistered animagi so that his werewolf friend wouldnât have to suffer through the full moon alone.
Do you realize that when James Potter used Levicorpus on Snape, he had already been planning on becoming a death eater and had been trying to out Remus as a Werewolf? This is actual canon from DH.
Besides, wasnât Levicorpus a spell that Snape himself created? How did James know about it? Oh, maybe Snape used it on him before. Of course, this is only speculation⊠But it is based on what Remus said. You have to remember that even if James was an idiot, Snape was no saint either. Remus said that Snape ânever lost an opportunity to curse Jamesâ. In fact, itâs mentioned by anyone who talks about the marauders and Snape that the animosity and hexing between them was mutual, so donât tell me that only James hexed Snape.  We donât actually know how one-sided Snapeâs bullying was. But if what Remus said itâs true, then it was mutual. Even if Snapeâs worst memory is true as told,  this happened after he was openly associating with pureblood supremacists, dismissing the use of dark magic as âa jokeâ.
You need to remember that James despised Dark Magic, and he couldnât even just say the word âmudbloodâ. He was the complete opposite to a pureblood supremacist and openly associated with every single being that the supremacists thought to be inferior. Werewolves, muggleborns, blood traitorsâŠ
Eventually, he grew up and became Head Boy. He matured, and did it enough for Lily to fall in love with him. You can talk a lot about James if you so wish, but donât come at me to tell me that Lily was stupid. Donât underestimate her that way. She wouldnât had fallen in love with him and married him if he was still such an idiot.
After school (possibly even in his final year), James grew up, and became part of the Order of the Phoenix as soon as he left Hogwarts. He realized what a douche he was to people and changed for the better. He joined the Order because there were innocent people dying for no reason, and he knew he could fight and help. He joined because he loved Lily and he wanted to make sure there was a future for them, a future where they could live happily ever after. And then he died trying to protect his family. He faced Lord Volvemort wandless, unarmed, so his wife and their baby could escape. James Potter was many things but he was not an idiot. He knew that facing Voldemort at that point would be the last thing he did, but did it anyway. He decided that Lilyâs life, and Harryâs, were more important than his own.Â
You have to remember that literally everybody from Hagrid to Lord Voldemort thought James Potter was a good and brave man.Â
On the other hand, Snape called the girl he was âin love withâ a mudblood infront of the entire school. He directly verbally abused her with a racial slur and became involved in a movement that wanted to kill her and eradicate her kind. He chose to shatter their friendship because his ego was hurt that a girl was helping him, even though she probably was the only person who was nice to him.Â
His treatment of Petunia was terrible. Heâs been bullying people since before he even went to Hogwarts. Since he was little, he thought muggle-borns and muggles were inferior.Â
He created a spell that could kill his enemies when he was at Hogwarts. And after that, he finally joined a terrorist organization that wanted to kill people like the woman he was supposed to be in love with. He probably killed and tortured people. He was a loyal Death Eater for multiple years. Â Â
Snape may have loved Lily, but his love for her was selfish, seen in the fact that he was willing to let her husband and her infant child die. Actually, I donât think he loved her. He was obsessed with her. Or at least, he loved the idea of her that was on his mind, not the real Lily Evans. If he had really loved her, he would have tried to save her family, knowing that she would suffer if they died. But he was willing to let a baby and an innocent man die if it meant he could save Lily. If it meant he could have her.Â
And when Lily died to protect her child, he realized that he made the wrong decision and âchangedâ. He became a spy, and I know it was hard. I understand that. I acknowledge Snapeâs efforts as a spy and his contributions to the war. In the end, he turned out to be a brave man who tried to rectify his mistakes. But that doesnât really change how a terrible person he was.
He abused his students, he bullied them. He targeted Neville, knowing he already had self-esteem issues, knowing what happened to his parents. He threatened to poison his pet. He consciously targeted someone he perceived as weak, to the point where he became Nevilleâs worst fear at age 13. A fucking teacher was his biggest fear, not the people that tortured his parents into madness. Donât you see how fucked up is that?!
Snape body shamed and insulted Hermione, who was an intelligent and hardworking student (just like Lily). He made her cry.Â
Yes, he tried to protect Harry, and saved his life more than once. But he also verbally abused him, a neglected, abused, orphan who had done nothing wrong but look like his dead father. A father that he didnât even know, by the way. Snape mocked and insulted him at every turn. Snape did everything that he could to make Harryâs life miserable because it was his way to have his revenge against James. This is not a 15 years old boy bullying another, itâs a fucking 30 years old man abusing a kid because he couldnât let go of his hatred for a dead person.
He tried to have an innocent man killed because of what happened when they were 16. Yes, Sirius was an idiot for that, Iâm not denying it, but he didnât coerce Snape into doing anything. He just gave him information. It means that Snape, on his own, decided it would be a great idea to sneak into the Shrieking Shack just to prove that Remus was a werewolf.Â
He caused Remus to lose his job after spending years suffering in poverty. He deliberately made Remusâ students to write an essay on how to spot and kill a werewolf, to emotionally attack and possibly out him as a werewolf. He later did out him to the entire wizarding world, and what was his reason? He he was angry because Sirius didnât die.
After seeing the abuse Dursleyâs inflicted on Harry, he thought it was funny and felt no sympathy. Harry was fifteen. The same age that Snape was when he was (supposedly) âbulliedâ. He didnât care about the abuse, he didnât see himself in Harry. He thought it was funny. Fucking funny.Â
Usually, people at 15 are jerks and bully each other. But teachers arenât supossed to abuse kids.Â
James Potter was a jackass, but he didnât join the equivalent of a magical nazi organization when he left Hogwarts. He didnât experiment with dark magic and he died protecting his family. He grew out of it. He was a good person in the end.
Snape only betrayed Voldemort because he was chasing after Lily. He only left the death eaters because he wanted to protect Lily, if Neville was the chosen one, heâd had remained in his position as a Death Eater.
So sorry if I prefer James over Snape all the way.
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