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I know the duelling scene was played for laughs but obviously I have Thoughts
1. Something about Harry casting Rictusempra (tickling charm) on Draco. Harry casts it in retaliation for Draco using a spell on Harry that made him feel as though he'd been hit over the head by a saucepan, which is more brutal than the previous spells (and Draco cheats by casting on 2 instead of 3. Something else about Harry's returning Rictusempra being a spell ending in -sempra, his later casting Sectumsempra on Draco in HBP, Harry making the mistake of not doing something "unsporting" and paying the price, and the dynamics and parallels between Pureblood bullies James/Draco vs Harry/Snape - only with Harry and Draco it's a lot more childish (at this stage, at least) and Harry is on more even footing duelling either one on one or with Ron and Hermione as backup
2. Snape knowing "a teeny bit" about duelling per Lockhart probably means he knows a great deal. Whether or not this is related to a school duelling club, his spats with the Marauders, or his days as a Death Eater is unclear
3. Something else about Snape (on the previous page) casting Expelliarmus so powerfully that Lockhart flew backwards, off the stage, and crashed into a wall, when usually it disarms your opponent and took three reasonably-to-very talented teenagers in PoA in a real, emotionally charged and dangerous situation to do the same to Snape in the Shack
4. Snape casting Finite Incantatem across a room described as containing "most of the school", and all of the spells stopping at once. A few hundred (presumably) people affected by Snape's single spell all at once. Imagine if Snape had been the traitor instead of Peter Pettigrew; a dozen casualties would be nothing, he'd have taken down the entire street (and to that end, so would McGonagall, with her spell on the status in the Battle of Hogwarts)
5. Speaking of which, Snape's obviously a very powerful snd knowledgeable wizard - but most of his more flashy demonstrations as an adult are played for laughs - even his unsupported flight, where the focus is on the "Snape shaped hole" he left in the window
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6. Snape was absolutely fuming at Lockhart for implying that Snape's spell was too obvious/that it wasn't that impressive. I think he really did want to show off a bit, and certainly take Lockhart down a peg and was salty about being "humiliated" in return by Lockhart's bluster, but...
7. He also wanted to teach the kids. He can cast spells nonverbally, so if his main goal was to humiliate Lockhart, that's all he had to do. The idea of disarming hadn't been introduced yet- the only goal was "not to kill", and I'm sure Snape has a few spells up his sleeve that could be nasty but not fatal
The Marauders didn't stop bullying Snape after the prank. It actually got worse.
A lot of people are surprised to realize that the scene in Snape's Worst Memory happens after the werewolf prank. When first reading OOTP, people generally assumed that SWM showed escalating tension between the Marauders and Snape that up led to the prank. But in DH, we see Snape and Lily talking about the prank before SWM. This means that the Marauders are still singling Snape out and targeting him after prank. Why?
My theory is that the bullying actually got worse after the prank. Because the only way to hold their friend group together was for the Marauders to double down and rally around blaming Snape for what happened.
Think about it: How did that incident not tear them apart? Sirius not only exposed Lupin's secret – he also attempted to use Lupin as a weapon against Snape, and he could have gotten James killed in the process. That's a huge betrayal.
But Sirius isn't mature enough to take responsibility for it. Lupin isn't self-confident enough to confront Sirius about it. "James would-consider-it-the-height-of-dishonor-to-mistrust-his-friends Potter" isn't going to be the one to lay blame on Sirius or break up the group. But it's too big an issue to ignore. The only way they can get over this is to put it all on Snape. It was just a joke, and Snape is an idiot, and James is a hero.
If you compare the two incidents that the books show us of the Marauders bullying Snape, you can see that totally different dynamics are driving the bullying. This shows how and why the bullying got worse after the prank.
The first bullying incident we see is on the Hogwarts Express, when James and Sirius engage in verbal bullying of Snape, with one small attempt at tripping him up as he leaves. This bullying is a form of bonding for James and Sirius and forms the basis of their friend group. This is an example of bullying driven by Peer Group factors (source), and this sort of bullying is generally done to:
to attain or maintain social power or to elevate their status in their peer group.
to show their allegiance to and fit in with their peer group.
to exclude others from their peer group, to show who is and is not part of the group.
What we're seeing here is that the soon-to-be Marauders are in new environment and they're defining their peer group and establishing social hierarchy, trying to establish their status. The Marauders continue in this pattern of Peer Group bullying throughout their school career, as evidenced by the detention records Snape has Harry transcribe in HBP. The Marauders seem to have thrown out hexes in a scattershot way to establish superiority over other students and look cool. This casual, incidental sort of bullying is likely what Snape experienced for the first several years of school.
But what we see in SWM isn't bullying to maintain Peer Group dynamics. This bullying isn't just flinging a single insult or a clever hex. James and Sirius hunt Snape, they deprive him of his wand and ability to escape the situation, and they repeatedly hex him until Lily (temporarily) stops them. This incident is extremely personal. This is an example of bullying driven by Emotional factors, and this type of bullying is done when the bullies:
have feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem, so they bully to make themselves feel more powerful.
don’t know how to control their emotions, so they take out their feelings on other people.
may not have skills for handling social situations in healthy, positive ways.
What we're seeing here is all the fraying edges of the Marauders' friendship. Sirius has just damaged their group, but he can't apologize or address it without accepting blame, so he has to take his emotions out on Snape. Punishing Snape is a way to exorcise his guilt. And it's actually imperative that he bully Snape into silence, because he is the one who has revealed Lupin's secret to Snape and put them all in jeopardy. Lupin can't confront Sirius about the betrayal of trust, and likewise he can't confront his friends here. Not only does Lupin not have the emotional security for handling this situation, he also can't risk putting himself in front of Snape in this moment, lest Snape scream "Werewolf" instead of "Mudblood." James is here trying to work through his own insecurities – in bullying Snape he is defending his friends, but James is also trying to get Lily's attention. James offers to change his ways if she'll give him a chance, because James needs to reassure himself that he is chivalrous, that he is a hero.
Looking at the way the bullying dynamics change and escalate in those two scenes, I think it’s clear that Lupin’s line, “Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost an opportunity to curse James so you couldn't really expect James to take that lying down,” is an understatement.
Snape was a special case because he knew Lupin’s secret, which would always make him a potential threat. The Marauders would always take any opportunity they could to reinforce that Snape was powerless to do anything to them. And they’d continue to take out all their emotions about the prank on Snape rather than confronting each other.
Under the floris
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.
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.
Forget-me-not
One thing that never fails to shock me is how many Marauder stans I’ve seen hating on Draco for saying this line to Hermione in GoF:
“Granger, they’re after Muggles,” said Malfoy. “D’you want to be showing off your knickers in midair? Because if you do, hang around . . . they’re moving this way, and it would give us all a laugh.”
Yet somehow they can’t apply that same logic to what happened in SWM:
James whirled about; a second flash of light later, Snape was hanging upside down in the air, his robes falling over his head to reveal skinny, pallid legs and a pair of graying underpants.
Many people in the small crowd watching cheered. Sirius, James, and Wormtail roared with laughter.
I’ve seen Marauder stans who bash Draco and call him horrible for “making a SA joke,” but then go ahead and defend what the Marauders did (which was ACTUAL SA, not just a gross joke) in SWM as if that’s not much worse. The irony is ridiculous.
That’s always confused me because… they can clearly see the harm in a character making a SA joke, but they gloss over or even justify their favourites characters actually doing what said character joked about??? Make it make sense.
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severus is a better person than me, bcs he could've gone on his cute death eater mask and attire, sorted james and sirius' location, crucio them a bit before murdering them, and yet he never did. people like to talk about severus as though as if he was the worst human being in hp, but he never took actual revenge on the golden boys, or they wouldn't have lived past 18 if he did, duh.
"snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year."
so what, sirius! did you ever die? were you damaged permanently? no???? then shut the fuck up! severus was supposed to be an expert on dark arts, surely had the means to do horrendous stuff with all his knowledge, and he still didn't, even after joining the death eaters he still had more regard for life than sirius did when he sent severus to the shrieking shack.
god, sometimes i wish severus was as awful as people think he was. the same guy who was worried for his soul if he killed the only person he appreciated, which was probably very fucking hard for him to do.
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the amount of harry potter fans who don't seem to realise that pensieve memories are not biased, but completely impartial, and just show events exactly how they played out is...interesting. we know what it looks like when they've been tampered with, but other than that.
yes i am talking about marauder stans claiming that snape's memories of the bullying were biased, and that he skewered them on purpose. where is the logic. why would snape alter his memories to make james look bad when he didn't want harry looking at them in the first place. use your brain.
The fact that Slughorn was a very powerful wizard and he couldn't tamper with memories without it being obvious despite having forewarning. Snape's memories are pristine, objectively true, and corroborated by outside independent sources. The idea that Harry would march to his death based on Dumbledore's killer's *falsifiable* word is beneath stupid, and the idea that the big reveal at the end of the series that explains everything and ties it all together is not, in fact, the truth, is dumber still. If you don't believe me, look at the words that start the chapter right after Prince's Tale.
But then, of course, if people are saying Snape altered his memories to make James look bad, it's a tacit acknowledgement that James... looks bad. It's something we can work with, a common core. So there is that.
At this moment, an almost imperceptible smile graced his face: everything was finally coming to an end.
Once again, this is an exercise in capturing my interpretation of Snape's expression, depicting the scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry returns to Hogwarts and enters the Great Hall, just before Snape is expelled by Professor McGonagall.
The composition is not mine, taken from a movie screenshot. My impression of that scene is that Snape's colours gradually fade, as if even his expression is losing its hue.
I believe that, in that moment, his heart was filled with a sense of serenity as the dust settled.
