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[msalexiscriss]

I hope I'm not annoying you, any news about "Looking For You"?

You’re not annoying me, anon, I’m just bad at answering this stuff. And yes, I have news, chapter 8 will be up and ready for y’all to read sometime this week ;)

[toujrspur]

did you read deathdaydungeon's reply to your werewolf class post? it's really interesting. offer a lot of insight into the possibilities of that class happening and why it's deeper than "striping away opportunities for nefarious criminal petty reasons".

yes, i did read it! i thought about replying, too, but i didn’t: partly because i didn’t have the right time, partly because i didn’t (and still don’t) have my hp books currently with me and i wouldn’t have been able to find quotes to prove my point, and mostly because i think that everyone has the right to have their personal opinion about something, and i wasn’t interest in changing their mind about iti will do it now, though, because it’s been nagging me for a long time and i want to write my personal view of the matter: everyone is free to agree or disagree with me, i really, really, really want to avoid conflict (especially on my blog, since i try to keep it a safe space, for everyone including me)for everyone interested: this is my original post, and this is the reply we’re talking about!long story short, i don’t agree with what they said, for various reasons:

There’s very little evidence to suggest that there is any intervention in the lesson plan by Dumbledore or any other teachers - instead, it seems that teachers can teach topics  in any order or any fashion they see fit. (...) Therefore, it is completely reasonable to assume that Lupin had the opportunity to teach the class about werewolves in the first few weeks - he could’ve grasped the nettle had he wanted.  He chose not to. 

that is not true. whether they are right in saying that every teacher was free to choose which topic to teach and how, but in the books you can see that remus was following an order of dark creatures of increasing difficult to deal with. as a matter of fact, i don’t remember in particular which student (in the movies it’s hermione, i remember someone different in the books) points out that it was too early for them to study werewolves, and that remus had planned something else for the lesson snape ended up teaching. remus was getting there, i believe, and he wanted to take his time before talking about such a delicate matter to him. so, i guess we can agree that snape deliberately chose to teach about werewolves. why?

I think it’s reasonable to assume that Snape didn’t teach the topic because he wanted to be mean(!) - after all, he requests that the essays are handed in to him; he doesn’t try and rub the lesson in Lupin’s face.

in facts, i never said snape wanted to “rub the lesson in lupin’s face”. it is said in the books, so it’s actual canon, that snape taught that class hoping that the students found out that remus was, indeed, a werewolf. this is what it’s really awful to me: snape knows, as we all know, how difficult remus life is - how difficult every werewolf trying to live a normal life is. they’re faced with poverty, prejudice, hatred. trying to uncover him (when dumbledore himself choose not to do it) is vile and petty, because it exposes remus to very serious discrimination.

Snape genuinely believed that Lupin was working with Black, who he genuinely believed was the traitor who led Voldemort to Lily and James Potter, thereby having a hand in their deaths.  Despite Snape explaining his fears to Dumbledore, he is ignored - which fuels Snape’s wariness.

did snape really believe remus was helping sirius? yes. i give you that. but teaching that class to those students wasn’t the right way to help. actually, it wasn’t helpful at all. what would have changed, even if the student found out about remus? they wouldn’t have been safer. he just wanted remus fired.

Is it any wonder then, that Snape would want to teach the kids how to save themselves from a werewolf seeing as one is roaming around the castle? 

i don’t want to sound offensive, here: i’m just stating what i grasped from the books. so, this little bit is just my personal opinion: students’ safety has never, ever been snape priority. ever. just look at what he did during his classes, bullying students and being generally really biased. i really can’t imagine a very-concerned-and-thoughtful snape trying to save his students’ life teaching them how to recognize a werewolf. furthermore, “roaming around the castle”? snape knew remus was inoffensive! he personally assured remus drank his wolfsbane potion every full moon night, and knew the security measures dumbledore took for him to not be a danger to anyone. 

Not at any point does someone say that what he taught differed from the Ministry approved text, or that he went overboard.

again, i give you that, he just reads from the approved ministry text. do you honestly think said text offers a nice, free-of-prejudices lesson about werewolf? remus was in all ways more qualified to teach about them. (how would you feel about a straight person teaching other people about the lgbt community, for example? even if the students didn’t know, remus had the right to teach that class however and whenever he wanted. if snape really cared about education, he would have seen that).

It’s hardly as if he was stalking around the classroom telling them that werewolves were subhuman scum.  

as said before, i’m not saying snape didn’t know how to teach a class about werewolves. he probably did a good job, considering his methods. the point stands: that was remus’ class to teach.

finally:

the books say, specifically, that snape taught that class because he wanted students to realize remus was a werewolf. i’m not making it up: it’s in the books: in facts, when his plan doesn’t work out, he spills remus’ secret out of pure spite. again, this is in the books: snape was winning some sort of award for saving the kids from sirius black, and when he doesn’t, the book states that he is so bitter about that decides to expose remus, to have him fired. which is, as i said before, REALLY dangerous for remus, who was already struggling with... finding a job? being alive?

snape is a grown man, he should realize how heavy the consequences of his actions are on a man like remus: no matter how he hated him, no matter what happened when they were teenagers. you talked about neville’s boggart: it was, of course, very childish (in a way!) of remus, but you can’t compare a good laugh with compromising remus’ entire life by having him fired.

getting back to the class snape taught: i still think he deliberately took his chance, to try and get remus discovered. ultimately, i think that was his only purpose, because he tries to have him fired the whole year. we can disagree about the reasons (personal hatred towards him, genuine concern about him working with sirius), but the point stands: even if he was concerned, risking to expose remus’ condition to a class of thirteen-years-old was not right, and, to me, not justifiable in any way

( as an ending note, to everyone: you can like snape’s character: i understand it. he’s a really intriguing and well-written character, and while i don’t, it’s perfectly reasonable to love him. still, loving snape doesn’t mean sugar-coating his actions, because that would strip him away from part of his characterization, right? )

[msalexiscriss]

So....Looking for you? LOL

Sorry anon, life got in the way, plus I had to split the chapter in two cause apparently I have no self control and it was way too long. But don’t worry, I’m working on that as we speak, so ch8 should be up soon. Have some patience, it’s coming, i promise!!

[msalexiscriss]

alec could get drunk and cheat on magnus, he's human and he's acting like a spoiled brat so he's more prone to make mistakes

[msalexiscriss]

Alexis, are you gonna reblog the same malec scene 10000 times?? Yes, anon, I’m going to reblog the same malec scene not 10,000, but 100,000.

[msalexiscriss]

Hi Alexis, just finished reading Between the Lines in literally 1 day. It was awesome and you're obviously an incredible writer. I am now reading Looking For You and am already hooked. Just wondering when the next update will be. Hope its soon!

Hi anon, thanks for this message and for reading BTL 😊 I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it. As for LFY…I’ll try to post the new chapter this week or during the first days of the new year, so stay tuned!!!

[msalexiscriss]

Hi!!! Can I ask when is the new Malec fanfic coming? I hope this doesn't sound pushy, I'd just love to start counting down towards it bc I'm so excited and can't wait to read it ajskfk and no matter when it is coming, I'd wait for it even for years bc your writting is awesome :) I hope you have a good week☀☀☀

Hi!!! Don’t worry, it’s not pushy at all, I’m actually really glad to hear that there are people looking forward to reading it (◡‿◡✿) my heart is really happy right now.

Anyway, I was going to post it this weekend, but then I got distracted and I couldn’t finish editing, so it’ll be up next weekend (Friday or Saturday), I promise! I can’t wait for you to read it!!!

Thanks again for this, and keep an eye out for the new fic…a little spoiler: it’s called “Looking for You” 😘

[msalexiscriss]

so,,,, i just read between the lines (and cried v v much and v v hard esp at the end) and was kinda wary abt ur blog but then i saw ur anti jalec thing and now i know that ur a ,,, good person

Thank you for reading my fic, anon, I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it!! And yeah, I’m anti jalec for a lot of reasons, I never discuss them in public because this fandom is…intense to say the least, but yeah, you won’t find that here, so no worries ;)